Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

Author:Jasmine Mans [Mans, Jasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

When they tell

the Black girl

she can’t play mermaid

ask them,

what their people know

about holding their breath

underwater.

About giving their bodies

to the current,

about all the things

that float.

Ask them about the girls

who lost their mothers,

and mother’s tongues

under the sea.

And the danger

awaiting the stillness,

how there’s always

something living,

and how there’s always

something dying.

There are mothers here.

Mothers who know grief

but have seen it too often

to give it such a name.

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