My First Ever Co-Ed Baby Shower...No One Does It Better Than the Diva!

I had the honor and pleasure of attending Attallah and Shawn's baby shower for Zoriah Aliyanna Stone and, knowing the poetics we share between us, I had fun creating an original piece to take in the baby's room: We Are Blessed. Family.

For Zoriah

Z oo joke. What’s a Llama’s favorite drink?

o h, don’t know? Llama-nade (formation).

r eady for a giggle? What do you call an elephant

i n need of a bath? A Smelly-phant (the frog has

a nother). Where do rabbits buy clothes? At the

h opping mall!

A ll of us, Zoriah, so enormous, so small, should

l earn all that we can, Langston’s renaissance call:

i asked you, baby, if you understood.

y ou told me that you didn’t, but thought you would, &

a ngelou, too, who heard the caged bird’s song,

n arrowing poetic text against all that is wrong. When

n ubian Queens unite, they show they are strong. They

a im for togetherness, Ubuntu, to belong (shepparding a

S ympony of faith that the dark past has

t aught us, singing a chorus full

o f hope that the present has brought us). The universe

n eeds your laughter, your love, your serenity & bliss…

e verything, Great Whatever, delivered in a family’s kiss.

                                                      ~BRC

The festivities were wonderful, and it was great to see everyone - the whole Shep-crew from New London, Connecticut. Of course, Attallah and Shawn looked great (and I apologize for causing a bit of emotion for my favorite muse). I'm wishing them the best as they begin to nest in their New Haven space. The magic of another generation is upon us.