Of Women and Spirit For Julie Dash, Inspired by the Film Daughters of the Dust By Kamaria Muntu Dare to sketch Gullah scapes to wade uncharted water where no flotilla ventures Let Chango lay the light of his fire on this water until it glistens like spinster crystal Go deep into the greenness into the patois…

Mestizo people do not fit easy anthropological categories — we went unnamed – confused when choosing for our selves a “race” on US forms. A sun people, the light ones stayed out of the sun, as if born an Anglo Daughter of the Revolution.

Tensions Over Steaming Coffee I fill the vessel, let the water boil par its routine temperature, let the sweaty stress pluck my eyebrows. Time stooped to conquer its speed in a grandfather’s clock. We travel through those tense steams emerging out of hot cups of coffee.

The  trees  acquire  immense  shadows….

“Sleeping in Tears” by Jennalee Auclair