The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Author:Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
PHILLIS PETERS PREPARES A PROPOSAL TO PUBLISH A SECOND BOOK
c. October 15, 1779
All her Wheatleys have left her
or have died, and besides,
during the War, she is poor.
Really poor: the last name of Peters
pays no debts and bakes no bread.
New England is destitute.
(Did you think that because
of Revolution, white
men would give
rights to Negroes?
Or suddenly, lift up
their own, white wives?
I know.
I, too, have my hopes
about power subsiding.
It is human
to expect that
in a flick of a quill,
a lost paradise
will beckon.)
Behold the Negro Poetess,
she that once clung to stone.
Turned now: a discarded rock.
Yet, Phillis Peters still
knows her fine mind,
the sable genius turning
on words.
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