Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Author:Yrsa Daley-Ward [Daley-Ward, Yrsa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Poetry, Feminism, Adult
ISBN: 9780143132615
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2014-06-15T23:00:00+00:00

now that it’s all over

She says she cries over me on the

train to and from work

and one day it will be better but it

isn’t better now.

she is just like my mother, but alive.

Knows how to love

quietly, completely.

Something about the way black women

hold your heart.

You can leave them all you like but you

can’t stay gone.

what love isn’t

It is not a five-star stay. It is not

compliments and it is never ever

flattery.

It is solid. Not sweet but always

nutritious

always herb, always salt. Sometimes

grit.

It is now and till the end. It is never a

slither, never a little

it is a full serving

it is much

too much and real

never pretty or clean. It stinks—you can

smell it coming

it is weight

it is weight and it is too heavy to feel

good sometimes. It is discomfort—it is

not what the films say. Only songs

get it right

it is irregular

it is difficult

and always, always

surprising.

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