Goldie by Anthony Azekwoh: a glamorous Black woman with voluminous hair glancing over her shoulder, in a gold halter and white fur stole, wearing gold rings and earrings against a gold ground.

Goldie

Everyone in the room is looking. She decided that a long time ago.

$522

The Last Dance

The music has not stopped. She has simply heard the silence underneath it.

$156

Mami Wata

Queen of the rivers. Mother of the deep. She has every gift, and she keeps the price.

$973

Oriana

She arrived with flowers and weather in her hair, and the room rearranged itself.

$1,150

Mama Gold

She built the market and the market built the city. The cigar is hers. So is the last word.

$522

The Traveller

One eye for the road ahead, one for the road behind. He has walked both.

$522

Cleopatra

History painted her pale. The painting gives her back her face, and her cat.

$425

Ayra Starr

A whole generation looked up at once. She was the thing they were looking at.

$425

Stardust

She is made of the same thing as the sky. When she goes, she goes back into it.

$425

Morningstar

Before he fell, he was the brightest. The fire remembers him. So does the dark.

$213

Tutu

Enwonwu painted her, and the nation saw itself. Here she is again.

$168

The Lover

He loved hard enough to age from it. He would do it again tomorrow.

$168

Father Time

He is not counting the years. He is watching them pass on their way somewhere.

$168