Columbia Williams Foster us a poet and fiction writer.  She has been published in Kuumba (a poetry journal for lesbian women), Gay Black Female, Kuma2 online at Kuma2.net (under a pen name Cello Hammond. The short story is called "Tell Me." In April, 2002), Poetic Hours in London, Short Stories magazine, Collage, Christianity and the Arts Magazine (Chicago Ill), and other magazines and journals--sometimes under pen names.  

She is a 39-year-old African American lesbian, married to Diane Foster who is also a writer/educator. She is an artist whose work is featured and sold in Detroit, Michigan at a lesbian bookstore called A Woman's Prerogative under the name Cello. And she loves Femmenoir!!

Ms. Foster is presently working on a novel. 
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"Diane"

It happened like the North Wind
coming from the end of the earth,
quietly sifting through tree branches
on a Fall morning, rustling leaves.

My heart broke loose ancient foundations
as she moved inside of me, planted a burning
core that seeps lava at the sound of her voice—
takes me back to Mecca over and over again;

calls me her Nubian Queen, said she’d
be my black, bronze King, and sex me
like the Wo-man she is. And I knew
that within seven days empires
could be built, worlds formed, and love created.

"Purple"

sometimes my heart leaks
pooling purple
long before I knew its capture
                       she was holding on---gasping

for what I could never give
digging deep to rapture one
morsel that may have fallen
off my soul

I found a hollow vase
my heart once breathed into
she must have taken it also
as she moved the ground
beneath me.

"A Day Late"

But…I am gone.