Lateef McLeod
A response to Malcolm Corley
The Glance of Siblings
By Lateef H. McLeod
They looked into each other’s eyes
And smiled as they recalled the
“good trouble” they got into,
when they chased each other
right in front of their family home.
How they laughed, as they played tag,
played catch,
or rode their bikes
up and down their home street.
All the years of growing up together,
replayed in their mind
as they gazed in each other's eyes.
Knowing instinctively
that he got her back
and that she had his.
For two kids who grew up with coco skin,
they knew that in this cruel and ruthless world
it is better to be together,
then apart.
As they smiled at each other
with their rosy coco cheeks glowing,
they knew that the history of their childhood
will always be in their hearts.
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Responses to Malcolm Corley's Work
Lateef McLeod
Lateef McLeod is building his career as a writer and a scholar. He has earned a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. He is a fifth-year graduate student in the Anthropology and Social Change doctoral program at California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco. He published his first poetry book, entitled A Declaration of A Body Of Love, in 2010 chronicling his life as a black man with a disability. He also published another poetry book, entitled Whispers of Krip Love, Shouts of Krip Revolution, in 2020. He currently is writing a novel tentatively entitled The Third Eye Is Crying. He was in the 2007 and 2016 annual theater performances of Sins Invalid and also in their artist-in-residence performance in 2011 entitled Residence Alien. In 2019 he started a podcast entitled Black Disabled Men Talk with co-hosts Leroy Moore, Keith Jones, and Ottis Smith. The podcast website is www.Blackdisabledmentalk.com. More of his writings are available on his website Lateefhmcleod.com and his Huffington Post blog, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lateef-mcleod/.
