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This track is for the Eric Dingus Remix contest. Pretty excited about it and I hope you enjoy it! #KAZEEQUEEN

Fault Lines - Start

Written 2017-2019. A version of the poem appears in the Cincinnati Review's miCRo Series, 2018. 

Featured in the debut collection of poetry HOODWITCH from Acre Books, forthcoming October 15, 2019. 

#Gawd94

from Onyx, released June 15, 2019 

Words x Faylita Hicks. 
Music x Pool Boi Blu. 
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ONYX

Photo of A Girl, 1994: Gawd

Written 2010-2019. A previous version of the poem appears in the American Poetry Journal. 

Featured in the debut collection of poetry HOODWITCH from Acre Books, forthcoming October 15, 2019. 

#FishWithYemayá

from Onyx, released June 15, 2019 
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Photo of X, 2004: Fish With Yemayá

Written 2017-2018. Never published. 

Featured in the debut collection of poetry HOODWITCH from Acre Books, forthcoming October 15, 2019. 

#TrainingDay95


from Onyx, released June 15, 2019 
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Photo of A Girl, 1995: Training Day

Written 2010-2019. Never published in whole, sections published in Kweli Journal, 2018. 

Featured in the debut collection of poetry HOODWITCH from Acre Books, forthcoming October 15, 2019. 

#DyingSun

from Onyx, released June 15, 2019 
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Collage of A Dying Sun

Collage Of A Dying Sun .1

Written 2010-2019. Never published. 

Featured in the debut collection of poetry HOODWITCH from Acre Books, forthcoming October 15, 2019. 

#ConcreteQween


from Onyx, released June 15, 2019 
Words x Faylita Hicks. 
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Recorded x Symmatree. 
Mix/Master x Gost.

Concrete Qweens

Concrete Qweens.1

Written 2016-2019. A previous version of the poem was published in the Matador Review, 2018. 

Featured in the debut collection of poetry HOODWITCH from Acre Books, forthcoming October 15, 2019. 

#Sandboxes

from Onyx, released June 15, 2019 
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Recorded x Symmatree. 
Mix/Master x Gost.

Sandboxes

Sandboxes.1

Written in 2018. Published originally on Medium. 

Featured in the debut collection of poetry HOODWITCH from Acre Books, forthcoming October 15, 2019. 

#KardashianCurse
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he tint-less women here 

Mind my pockets — task me 

For my thick hide & tight cunt; 

Praise my gauze-trapped orgasms; 

Envy me the herd of men 

Who climb up out of me; 

Crawl into the beds of my boys & 

Sickle my sons with their thirst; 

Scrape me of my contour & 

Throw what’s left of my body 

Into their mirrors; stitch my name 

Into the roofs of their mouths 

So they too can #drippp 

Authentic power; praise me 

For my discounts on IG 

But disbelieve 

My lack of security; I’m lit 

Oil in they pipes — a nova 

Out of fashion with the times. 

They don’t love me as much 

As they love the way I am 

When I am smoked & 

Ghost-drawn; I is 

They idol until neon 

Stenciled skies hollow me 

Like the gun clips 

Of hook-handed fellows 

Who hollowed me & holla my name 

Under disco-chipped stars 

With the same glow 

As my vintage angles & 

Savage pose — I’m sick 

With the light 

Trapped inside of me 

When they aside me; I am the closest 

They’ve ever come to Gawd 

In the flesh & yet they still 

Have the nerve to take them fresh 

“Brazilian” waxes to the center 

Of South Shore, where they will 

Swipe right 

Until around what time 

Do you want to hook up; 

Cast themselves in shades 

Of bronze for bags & bills 

Already paid — which, true, 

Wouldn’t be that bad 

If only they didn’t: 

Jerk their necks like me, snap 

Their fingers like me, squat pop 

Over piles of money 

In the shape of a TV producer 

Who just happens to know 

The true value of false b/ l/ a/ c/ k pain; 

Shadow dip themselves 

In my hustle & use my Gawd- 

Given name in vain.



from Onyx, released June 15, 2019 
Words x Faylita Hicks. 
Music x Pool Boi Blu. 
Recorded x Symmatree. 
Mix/Master x Gost.

The Kardashian Curse

Written 2016-2019. A version of the poem appears in Five:2:One Magazine, 2018. 

The title poem of Hicks' debut collection of poetry, HoodWitch, this piece is performed with an additional section and performed over a beat produced by Delano Taylor aka Pool Boi Blu. 

Featured in the debut collection of poetry HOODWITCH from Acre Books, forthcoming October 15, 2019. 

#HoodWitchPoetry


from Onyx, released June 15, 2019 
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Music x Pool Boi Blu. 
Recorded x Symmatree. 
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#HoodWitch

Faylita Hicks (pronouns: she/her/they) is a black queer writer and the Editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. A 2019 LAMBA Lit Fellow, she was a finalist in the 2018 PEN American Writing for Justice Fellowship, the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Annual Poetry Prize and Palette Poetry’s 2019 Spotlight Award. Her debut book, HoodWitch, is forthcoming October 2019 with Acre Books. 

Her poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Slate, Huffington Post, POETRY magazine, Kweli Journal, The Rumpus, The Cincinnati Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Lunch Ticket, Matador Review, and others.