18 de Mayo, 2008

Sunday Poetry Review

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[Kevin Andre Elliott, sometimes known as the Thin Black Duke, is a guest blogger at The Unapologetic Mexican, and can be found blogging away on weekdays at A Slant Truth.]
 

Because sharing poetry is sharing love and peace and all that is good with the world.

"All the World Moved" by June Jordan*

All the world moved next to me strange
I grew on my knees
in hats and taffeta trusting
the holy water to run
like grief from a brownstone
cradling.

Blessing a fear of the anywhere
face too pale to be family
my eyes wore ribbons
for Christ on the subway
as weekly as holiness
in Harlem.

God knew no East no West no South
no Skin nothing I learned like
traditions of sin but later
life began and strangely
I survived His innocence
without my own.

*June Jordan. Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans, ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey, 136 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006).

 Kevin, when not battling the evil forces of academia, wiles his time away writing about truth, justice, and the American way at A Slant Truth. He most definitely doesn't have a comic book fetish, but he does seek to redefine those terms to mean something more humane. He also wants to make you dance. This post created at 7:41 PM.   | Top | View blog reactions