Duppy Conqueror by Kwame Dawes

Author:Kwame Dawes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

A deep-pink face webbed in canary-yellow netting,

swaddled in infant finery — flesh soft to the eye.

This is how we first met; you, unblinking,

a week old, and the order of my life shifted.

I was four and you seemed outside of me,

outside of meaning. The nine months before

were blank, no recollection of waiting

for what must have been our mother’s

marvelously round body. For it to turn

to this. At four, I stared at the full-length

mirror, then sprinted to the back of it

to find my revenant. My first inexplicable

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