BloodFresh by Ebony Stewart

Author:Ebony Stewart [Stewart, Ebony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Publisher: Button Poetry

SWAY

Dear Black girl,

you mispronounced wonder

You hand-me-down strange fruit

You bending-tree-splintered-and-spray rooted life

You stately-poor-mansion mouth with the stars falling out

You grip, grab, and growl

You hold on, stuck black

You surviving scorched temple

Sway.

You bob-head, battle-rap body, and graffiti tongue

causing cacophonies

You harmony and hip-hop booty

Legs

be standing

Be flyy

Be gathered razor smile and raging

fists

bulging in back pockets for the long walk home

Be ready

Be two-to-the-body and one-to-the-face

Be kicking, screaming

Be

calling all your pieces back

Be love

Be remembering how

you be Black woman

so

been know how

since mama taught you how to make a braid

and break bread with other Amazons

Gurl,

sway.

You balmy coil beauty making ruckus with your hair

You knotted brown black

You dark meat

You volcanic laugh

Say, I own myself

Say, I validate me and birth gods

Raised yo mama and yo mama’s mama

ain’t nothing but a mammy

taught you everything you know good

O, anyhow

gospel

O, hallelujah

Praise

Black girl,

sway.

Even when your bones hurt,

when they make wilt out of your name,

try and blow out your flame,

you be bigger

Show em you got that ether

Make em burn slow

You be inferno,

be progressive

Be fan, clap, and snap

This sh*t is magic—you’d have to be a Black girl to understand

Show em how it all got started,

how the bricks got laid

That this is what happens when the ink spills,

when your ancestors dance your worth awake

Dear Black girl,

sway.

Swoon.

WOOSH!

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