Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Author:Warsan Shire [Shire, Warsan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: African Literature, Poetry, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781905233298
Publisher: Flipped Eye
Published: 2011-12-29T00:00:00+00:00
The instructor tells us that the longest
a human being has held their breath under water
is 19 minutes and 21 seconds. At home in the bath,
my hair swells to the surface like vines, I stay submerged
until I can no longer stand it, think of all the things
I have allowed to slip through my fingers.
Inna lillahi Wa inna ilaihi Rajioon.
My mother says no one can fight it â
the body returning to God,
but the way she fell, face first,
in the dirt,
mouth full of earth,
air, teeth, blood,
wearing a white cotton baati,
hair untied and smoked with ounsi,
I wonder if Kadija believed
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