Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne

Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne

Author:Mahogany L. Browne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2022-01-08T00:00:00+00:00


LOVE SONG

For Elsie Jean & Pau

i never heard my grandmother

say “i love you” to my grandfather.

my grandfather would sooner say he

loved us ashy brown pawn pieces &

“children, your grandma just mean”

he’d smile with honesty weeping

from his wrinkles.

my grandmother, a brownstone dish

proper & hot water cornbread—

paid him no mind. her neck

a swivel swing. cracked his old man

banter, ignored him like

loud sirens serenading oakland

sky on friday.

“i ain’t stuttin’ you”

she waved, kitchen spoon swim

in gravy or collard greens. her hips

swayed along to the rhythm under

her breath. his eyes danced along—

she pretended she know

he was checkin’ for her beat.



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