- 1. Waiting On The Mayflower
i. august 1619
arrived in a boat, named
and unnamed, twenty, pirated
...
- 2. Where Is It Clean
when your mother can rise from her place
on the pew during the early service,
early enough that the sun barely fills the sky
...
- 3. Notes To My Nieces (or, Essays In Fortune-telling )
when i was younger, trees
were green, money was green, money
grew on trees, or trees grew up
and became money. now, money is clearly
...
- 4. From The Lost Letters Of Frederick Douglass
Dear Daughter,
Can you be fifty-three this
month? I still look for you to peek around
my door as if you'd discovered a toy
...
- 5. Pantoum: Landing, 1976
Dreaming the lives of the ancestors,
you awake, justly terrified of this world:
you could dance underwater and not get wet,
you hear, but the pressure is drowning you:
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