• the coming of fox

    Bernardo Wade

    Winter 2025

    after Lucille Clifton


    now gray
    almost like smoke

    feeling its way
    against the wind

    my father glides over
    & you let him

    steal your bright

    Born and raised in New Orleans, Bernardo Wade serves as Assistant Editor and Poetry Editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, his debut poetry collection, A Love Tap, is forthcoming from Lookout Books in Fall 2025.

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