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  • Afro-LatinaAfter Airea D. Matthews
  • Briana Campbell (bio)

Brown skin. Piel canela. The warm color of rum in the sunlight. Morenita. Como cumin molido. Rich like the dirt sugar cane grows from. Mulatta. Black like morcilla. Café con leche. Ripening platano in the kitchen. Una chica de chocolate. Yoruba in her veins. Pegao clinging to the bottom of the caldero. Fermented tobacco leaves. Piel oscura como una malta. Como dulce de leche. Sweet like panela. The color of coconut skin. Brown like yautía straight from the earth, malanga. Tamarind candies by the handful. Una botella de cerveza. Bizcocho de rum. Ne grita. Pepitas de papaya. Frijoles negros stewing, congrí, de la diáspora. Una reina. [End Page 32]

Briana Campbell

Briana Campbell is a graduate of Florida State University, where she majored in creative writing.

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