Poetry
Winter 1992
Mary Prince Bermuda. Turks Island. Antigua. 1787
i was born the cock crow the sun went up or down and spread the legs of a woman who’s since lost her mind a woman who named me “mary.” […]
Poetry
Winter 1992
Elizabeth Freeman’s Will 1742-1829
to my own daughter i leave a work apron three pairs of cotton stockings three sheets three pillows of white one handsome tablecloth three quilts a large woolen knit shawl […]
Poetry
Winter 1992
She Lucy. 1849
she had a caul on her eye and a birth mark ‘side her mouth she was born early or born late or conceived in planting time any way she split […]