Chorus of the Mothers-Griot
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
for Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784)
[amnesiac wood]
[nostrils of girls] [who was bought] [uncle’s hand]
[guts on the air] [who was sold] [defeated man]
[history’s charnel] [i say] [trader’s silver]
[sailing knot to knot]
[naked in the corner] [door of no return] [sing the mutiny]
[in the slave house] [sniff bougainvillea] [who stands ashamed]
[i say] [ready dawn’s kill] [naked in the corner]
[jealous sharks]
[i shall] [who did] [i say]
[they did] [i’m here] [my name]
[who shall] [i say] [yes here]
[on the battlefield]
[call woman] [call america] [call revolution]
[call the brother] [call myth] [i say]
[call the auction] [call africa] [call revolution]
[in God’s name]
[is this called] [is my mother] [is my kin]
[i say] [is this called] [is some land]
[is my mother] [and what] [is this called]
after Lucille Clifton
KISS
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