Jean Toomer White Poems

  • 1.
    African Guardian of Souls,
    Drunk with rum,
    Feasting on strange cassava,
    Yielding to new words and a weak palabra
    ...
  • 2.
    Hair-braided chestnut,
    coiled like a lyncher's rope,
    Eyes-fagots,
    Lips-old scars, or the first red blisters,
    ...
  • 3.
    Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts,
    Bootleggers in silken shirts,
    Ballooned, zooming Cadillacs,
    Whizzing, whizzing down the street-car tracks.
    ...
  • 4.
    Hair--braided chestnut,
    coiled like a lyncher's rope,
    Eyes--fagots,
    Lips--old scars, or the first red blisters,
    ...
  • 5.
    To those fixed on white,
    White is white,
    To those fixed on black,
    It is the same,
    ...
Total 5 White Poems by Jean Toomer

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