Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth by Yusef Komunyakaa

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

BLACK FIGS

Because they tasted so damn good, I swore

I’d never eat another one, but three seedy little hearts

beckoned tonight from a green leaf-shaped saucer,

swollen with ripeness, ready to spill a gutty

sacrament on my tongue. Their skins too smooth

to trust or believe. Shall I play Nat King Cole’s

“Nature Boy” or Cassandra’s “Death Letter”

this Gypsy hour? I have a few words to steal

back the taste of earth. I know laughter can rip

stitches, & deeds come undone in the middle of a dance.

Socrates talked himself into raising the cup to his lips

to toast the avenging oracle, but I told the gods no

false kisses, they could keep their ambrosia & nectar,

& let me live my days & nights. I nibble each globe,

each succulent bud down to its broken-off stem

like a boy trying to make a candy bar last

the whole day, & laughter unlocks my throat

when a light falls across Bleecker Street

against the ugly fire escape.

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