A Sestina
Kisha Nicole Foster
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His heart, a multi-unit foreclosed house Discipline instilled by his grandmother Memory, a disappointed child Clear window-well, a dim basement, lit stove His mind puzzles, reads Arab almanac He gains knowledge to block his flow of tears White told black man not to cry, dry wet tears Pool them in broken sink that is your house Sweep kitchen dirt floor like your grandmother He remembers her, with hung almanac Preserves her speech in castor pot on stove Shelters new fears, a sad inner child When he dreams, he is a forgotten child When he wakes, his clothes steep from bleach blue tears Nightmares boil on purified copper stove They snake up the siding of his single house Ears strain to hear the hum of his grandmother Forecasts his today, farmers almanac Black men's dead bodies, battered almanac Black men's dead bodies, once a fun brown child Black men's dead bodies wail for grandmother Black men's dead bodies, wilted negro tears Black men's dead bodies yearn to hug their house Black men' s dead bodies find warmth around stove In the hood, when it's cold, we stand over stove Hands cup heat translate almanac Gives directions home, back to the poor house Where there is a muffled mouth, starving child Whose mother works paycheck to pay the tears Mother repeats gait from her grandmother Black man arrested calls his grandmother She answers, weary, cornbread hot on stove Tells him, she adores him, stifling her rile tears Serenades to him the World almanac Points out the correct way to rear a child Says she will wait for him outside her house He will drop stone tears, scribe the almanac Miss his grandmother, make love to her stove Show heart to his child, who inherits house
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