Nomenclature by Dionne Brand

Author:Dionne Brand [Brand, Dionne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2022-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

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It is not sufficient here to mark the skin’s water or fold,

the back soft, the neck secret, the lips purpled. She

startled me just last night. I heard her singing and

could not dance. I heard her navigate the thick soil of

who we are. Her boundless black self rising,

honeying.

for faith

VI

listen, just because I’ve spent these

few verses fingering this register of the heart,

clapping life, as a woman on a noisy beach,

calling blood into veins dry as sand,

do not think that things escape me,

this drawn skin of hunger twanging as a bow,

this shiver whistling into the white face of capital, a

shadow traipsing, icy veined and bloodless through

city alleys of wet light, the police bullet glistening

through a black woman’s spine in November, against

red pools of democracy bursting the hemisphere’s

seams, the heart sinks, and sinks like a moon.

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