Weaving incredible stories

excerpts from Grace Nichols’s “Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman”

photograph by A.B. Godfreed

1.

I sing the body reclining
A bundle of bones
The lolling breast
Even the undeserving
Stars are the nipples
of angels
The black persistent blooming
I add our butter love

2.

Granny please comb my hair
Oooh I’m going to break/dance
How can I persuade it
to rite a poem/
reclaim the sands
heavy-booted little footsteps
a specimen
whose heart is in the dust

3.

Maybe I lying
Dis ya she country
butter mountains
an de sky blue
Because she has come
the back-home politician-drone
they want a little black blood
of our fondest secrets

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