In Low Bone Parish, the water don’t knock. It just rises. Quiet at first, like breath held too long. It slicks along the bayou’s edge, kisses porch steps, then swallows whole towns without a word. Folks call it a...
What the Water Took
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Khalisa Rae
Khalisa Rae is a poet, journalist, and author of the award-winning poetry collection Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat (Red Hen Press) and the forthcoming novel-in-verse Unlearning Eden. A multi-genre writer, her work centers Black Southern identity, spirituality, and womanhood and has been featured in Electric Lit, Southern Humanities Review, Frontier Poetry, LitHub, and more. Khalisa is the Theater and Literature Director at the North Carolina Arts Council and the co-founder of the Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference.