By- Casey McLerran
The stars saw
The black scars
Snaking the celestial
Body of their
Sister
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They held their
Blinking eyes
Wide and steady
While she became chained
To her destiny
They watched the storms in her cap
Produce only a mudifying trickle
And cloud her visions
The heavens sang her name
But she turned inward
To her creation
And did not listen
Orion had blood on his head
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Literary Editor
Casey McLerran is the Literary Editor at the Black Wall Street Times. She is a Sooner State transplant from Forest Hills, NY. McLerran arrived in Oklahoma at the age of three shortly after gentrification displaced her and her family out of their home in New York. At first glance, many think they have McLerran figured out. To be frank, she’s a biracial American young woman that unapologetically embraces her half-African identity — a feminist-womanist she is. Her pen operates as her voice as well as her sword. Her accolades include the 2018 Rural Oklahoma Poetry Museum’s Oklahoma Poem Award, a business management degree, and her three beautiful children. Her objective with the Black Wall Street Times is to elevate and amplify the literary art of modern black American culture, pay tribute to African-American literary trailblazers, all while simultaneously linking and introducing children to the world of colorful American writers.
