Colby King Colby King

Notes for My Therapist

A fragmented, confessional inventory of contradiction — desire, loneliness, performance, and the cost of being the person everyone else leans on. Formally restless and emotionally precise.

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Colby King Colby King

Maleficent’s Prayer

A cosmological reimagining of Blackness and beauty. This poem inverts the Western aesthetic order — reclaiming darkness, night, and shadow as sites of creation, divinity, and joy.

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Memory

An excavation of what the body stores and what it forces itself to forget. Drawing on psychology and the Black queer experience, this poem traces the violence of erasure and the radical work of remembering yourself back into existence.

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Deliver Us From Evil

“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.” - Matthew 6:13

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