Evie Shockley Life Poems
- 1. 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
... - 2. 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
... - 3. A Sonnet For Stanley Tookie Williams
celebrations: what a star
announcedâ??a birthâ??and then a chance to fold
a year away, pull one fresh from the drawer,
... - 4. 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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