February 15, 2010
consider me these hips this alphabet an echo this symbol in the hallway surely this tongue could spin a wow-weaved man could spin a place to rest to rest to rest Lucille Clifton once said, somewhere, that things are better said in threes. She once said that she’d thought of several word options before speaking [...]
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February 13, 2010
Here we are in the early days of Black History Month, churning steadily towards Women’s History Month, & chugging heartily towards National Poetry month; it is 2010. We are ending the Year of the Ox, charging headlong to the Tiger’s year; Valentine’s Day will, for some of us, be (wonderfully) subsumed by Chinese New Year. [...]
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