Monthly Archives: February 2013
La femme de couleur
Posted on February 26, 2013 Leave a Comment
Borrowed mother’s voice, To pay tribute. My aria ricochets. Have the dark clouds been banished? Are you dreaming of delicious blackberries? Has my song ransomed me? A dutiful daughter, I am a parody of an echo. These legacy chains bind me, silken sisterly knots, stirring soup in cast iron pots to feed the ‘strongmen, as […]
Autobiography of a Goddess
Posted on February 26, 2013 Leave a Comment
Autobiography of a Goddess Emerging from the head of a god? fully formed from the sea? No, falling from a Cap-Haïtien mango tree a suckling, nourishing on sugarcane. Departing, same hemisphere, new city. an undocumented body in the elementary factory assembly line. Discovering language weaving tales like Scheherazade not to defer death but to invent […]
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