Darlene Anita Scott
Darlene Anita Scott

darlene anita scott is a poet and visual artist. Her recent poetry appears in About Place, Aunt Chloe, Killens Review of Arts and Letters, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, and Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era, which she co-edited. Scott's visual art has recently appeared in The West Review and The Journal of Compressed Arts, and her photography in Auburn Avenue, Barren Magazine, and 805 Literature + Art. Her first poetry collection, Marrow, is forthcoming from University Press of Kentucky in 2021.

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AND A SPECIAL FEAR FOR MY LOVED ONES

After Elizabeth Catlett (1946)

A person is justified in using force He’s just walking around looking about. except deadly force—He’s just staring— against another when & to the extent the person reasonably believes such conduct is necessary—Now he’s just staring at me—to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. Now he’s coming […]

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