The Tradition by Jericho Brown

Author:Jericho Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2019-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Dear Whiteness

Come, love, come lie down, love, with me

In this king-size bed where we go numb

For each other letting sleep take us into

Ease, a slumber made only when I hold

You or you hold me so close I have no idea

Where I begin—where do you end?—where you

Tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies

About what I mean to you when

I’ve labored all day and wish to come

Home like a war hero who lost an arm.

That’s how I fight to win you, to gain

Ground you are welcome to divide

And name. See how this mouth opens

To speak what language you allow me

With the threat of my head cradled safe.

Tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies

Of what you require, intimacy so industrious

That when I wake to brush you from my own

Teeth I see you in the mirror. I won’t stay

Too long. When you look in that mirror, it

Will be clean. You’ll be content

Seeing only yourself. Was I ever there?

Tell me lies. Tell me. Tell me lies.

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