Jean Toomer Body Poems

  • 1.
    Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;
    come now, hewit! roll away!
    Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day
    But lets not wait for it.
    ...
  • 2.
    Spatial depths of being survive
    The birth to death recurrences
    Of feet dancing on earth of sand;
    Vibrations of the dance survive
    ...
  • 3.
    Hair-braided chestnut,
    coiled like a lyncher's rope,
    Eyes-fagots,
    Lips-old scars, or the first red blisters,
    ...
  • 4.
    Hair--braided chestnut,
    coiled like a lyncher's rope,
    Eyes--fagots,
    Lips--old scars, or the first red blisters,
    ...
Total 4 Body Poems by Jean Toomer

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