I have to live by Aisha Sasha John

Author:Aisha Sasha John [Sasha John, Aisha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2017-04-11T00:00:00+00:00

Mama, I am a poem.

So yeah: the beach was nice; the sky is black.

I’m home.

There are headscarves on my aunties.

A man with hands like

Earth leads the service.

I look at his hands.

He ejects certain words as a way of singing.

Some get pushed

Out or are pulled.

They leap

Or are

Grabbed – I dunno.

On the television

A woman carves from a stack of rice krispie squares

Human breasts.

I feed cut watermelon to my grandmother.

I am low and found; I am high and found.

When I read that part to my mom over the phone she

Cries. It’s sad

She says.

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