Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith

Author:Patricia Smith [Smith, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, General, American, African American, Women Authors, Poetry › American › African American
ISBN: 9780810134348
Google: EUIoDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0810134330
Publisher: Triquarterly
Published: 2017-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

When black men drown their daughters, the rash act is the only

plausible response to the brain's tenacious mouth and its dare: Yes,

yes, open your ashed hands and release that wingless child. Note

the arc of the sun-drenched nosedive, the first syllable of the child's

name unwilling from the man's mouth, the melody of billow that

begins as blessed clutch. Someone crouching inside the father waits

impatiently for the shutting, the lethargic envelop, and wonders if

the daughter's wide and realizing eye will ever close to loose him.

It never will, and the man and his child and the daughter and her

father gaze calmly into the wrecked science of each other's lives.

The sun struggles to spit a perfect gold upon the quieting splash.

The river pulses stylish circles of its filth around the swallow.

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