Kenny Fame
Rondeau: Every Time He Leaves
A tea-kettle that has reached its
boiling point, whistling… until bits
of steam seeps. Each time my, shadow
begins to trail, behind I know
how blurry, windows, tend to get.
I can’t believe how this love this, sick-
ness. Got me popping pills like, six
at a time. Then vibrations, grow.
A tea-kettle
releases vapors. Remove, quick
from this burner. Please. Cues music
it’s Billie, Holiday. "Tain't No-
body's Business" — and it ain’t. So
next to my old Victrola, sits
a, tea-kettle.
Kenny Fame is an African-American / GLBTQ poet who was born in Paterson, New Jersey; but he currently calls the village of Harlem in NYC his home. He was a recent graduate of Cave Canem’s 2011 & 2012 Poetry Conversations Workshop classes. He was the winner of “The Tenth National Black Writers Conference Award for Poetry.” He has been a featured “Poet of the Week” on the Poetry Super Highway during the week of January 2-8, 2012. His work has appeared in numerous journal both nationally & internationally such as: Steel Toe Review #7 & 10, River Lit #5, The Fine Line, Emerge Literary Journal # 1, Rufous Salon (Sweden), Milk Sugar, Prompt Literary Magazine, De La Mancha, Anastomoo, ken*again, Assisi Journal, African-American Review, Gloom Cupboard, Black Magnolias Literary Journal # 6.2 and The New Verse News on December 18th 2011.