christina61
New Member
member is offline
Joined: May 2008
Gender: Female 
Posts: 33
Karma: 0 |  | "Diaspora" by Audre Lorde
« Thread Started on Nov 20, 2008, 5:51pm » | |
Diaspora
Afraid is a country with no exit visas
a wire of ants walking the horizon
embroiders our passports at birth
Johannesburg Alabama
a dark girl flees the cattle prods
skin hanging from her shredded nails
escapes into my nightmare
half an hour before the Shatila dawn
wakes in the well of a borrowed Volkswagen
or a rickety midnight sleeper out of White River Junction
Washington bound again
gulps carbon monoxide in a false bottomed truck
fording the Braceras Grande
or an up-country river
grenades held dry in a calabash
leaving
Our Dead Behind Us, Audre Lorde, W.W. Norton, 1986
| |
|
![[Search This Thread]](http://images.proboards.com/search2.gif "[Search This Thread]")
![[Share Topic]](http://images.proboards.com/new/buttons/share.png "[Share Topic]")
![[Print]](http://images.proboards.com/buttons/print.gif "[Print]")
Author
Logged