- 1. Where You Are Planted
He's as high as a georgia pine, my father'd say, half laughing. southern trees
as measure, metaphor. highways lined with kudzu-covered southern trees.
fuchsia, lavender, white, light pink, purple : crape myrtle bouquets burst
...
- 2. Waiting On The Mayflower
i. august 1619
arrived in a boat, named
and unnamed, twenty, pirated
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- 3. The Anklet
my sister's visit
to india begins
it. i asked for a sari,
but received
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- 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
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- 5. Her Tin Skin
,
resistant, cupped, no, cocked
in the V of her elbow. i want
my curves mountainous
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