Concrete Wings, Sacred roots Paperback – January 5, 2026

Concrete Wings, Sacred Roots is a deeply personal, spiritually charged, and culturally rooted collection of poems that traces the journey of a Black man shaped by the hood, healed by faith, and transformed by love. Across four powerful sections, the book blends raw storytelling, emotional vulnerability, ancestral reverence, and lyrical craft to create a narrative about survival, identity, healing, and becoming. The collection opens with childhood memories rooted in Memphis streetlights, Saturday mornings, family kitchens, and the bittersweet innocence of growing up in a place where joy and danger live side by side. In these early poems, the speaker reflects on the hard lessons the hood teaches: how to run, how to endure, how to laugh through struggle, and how to find beauty in broken places. The second section explores desire, romance, heartbreak, and the intimate complexity of relationships. These poems are sensual yet introspective, showing love not just as physical connection but as a catalyst for growth, vulnerability, and self-honesty. Grief and faith anchor the third part. Here, the voice turns inward, confronting loss especially the death of a grandmother who shaped his spiritual and emotional foundation. These poems reveal a man wrestling with darkness, depression, and generational pain, yet also discovering God’s quiet presence in the midst of it. Moments of personal breaking become moments of spiritual awakening. The final section focuses on legacy, fatherhood, identity, and the sacred roots of Black history and culture. Poems uplift Black boys, honor Black women, reclaim dignity stolen by systems of oppression, and celebrate the unbreakable lineage of ancestors who endured so the next generation could rise. Through affirmations of self-worth and love, the speaker embraces his role as a protector, father, teacher, and man growing into purpose. Across the entire book, Posey’s voice is unfiltered and cinematic balancing raw hood realism with spiritual softness, pain with tenderness, and trauma with hope. Concrete Wings, Sacred Roots is ultimately a testimony: that even when you come from hard places, you are still capable of flight; that your roots your people, your history, your God remain sacred; and that healing is a holy journey worth taking. Read more