Reuben JacksonReseñas
Autor de Fingering the Keys
Reseñas
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Here are two poems that definitely spoke to me.
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Coming Back Home
(Washington, D.C., spring 2018)
Walk down
A formerly black street--
One which is now
Whiter than northern New England
Yet the gradation of light
Knows you
As does the breeze
Humid as longing
They hold you
Like her hands did
Once
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If You Met My Mother
She would be warm
And a bit nervous
Eyes darting between
The white stranger
In love with her baby
And some semi-distant space
Between us
She who worried about my love life
(In high school and beyond)
Would find herself wrestling with race
While seeking a smile
Sturdy enough to last through
The pot roast she checks
Every other breath
Until silently
Stubbornly concluding
That this might
Be all right