The Glory Gets by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Author:Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2015-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

after Oya

Some nights

I love this earth to dust

I shout umbilical prayers

& they rise

into tornado

I shake the spirit box

surrounded by shards

then fling back the scabs

of houses

Take my rivers

all of you

& drink them

I need no permission

to drain

the gourd

or split the hot

yam center of dirt

Yes

my sacraments walk

clothed in welts

but you don’t have to believe

In my throat

the clutch of blood

Take my rivers

all of you

& drink them

I tear

& I tear open the breathless

cradle packed

tight

& blow the wall of wood

sailing on my lifeline

the nine streams of spit

dammed by flying stone

Now fall & call my name

a welcome for death

& Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel

is an empty pocket

turned inside

out

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