Bury My Clothes by Roger Bonair-Agard

Author:Roger Bonair-Agard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 111-1-11-111111-1
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2013-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

My grandmother survived.

My grandfather survived.

My mother survived.

I survived. This is how

I know the birds flinging

themselves onto rooftops have

something to say. This is how

I know I will not die by bullet

or fire—how I know

I am a black poet.

My great-great-uncle Obidiah was hobbled

for running. He ran as a way

of spell-casting. He bit a man’s

ear clean off. This is also

a way of casting spells.

This is how he protects me,

how I know I will outrun

every bullet. My mother

insisted on my blackness.

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