Occasionally, I’ll find myself searching in Dropbox for a reading or an assignment, and I’ll come across a poem I wrote, worked on for a bit and then saved thinking I would come back to it later. Yesterday I found this one:
Wondrous Work
For Gwendolyn, Nikki, Audre, Sonia and Lucille
Black Whoa man
Your work is wondrous on and off the page
Breaking the silence of the slow drag
Magnetizing the magic
My dynamic mama kin
Creating new, the world
Mining the word/mind/silo
Rising, shimmering, shimmying
to the golden crash of symbols
Let’s make some noise!
Sibilant sounds simmering
Cooking up truth
Flipping the modes
Filling the pores
Surgeons of the heart
Vintners of the spirit
Espresso expression
Pressing on!
Pedagogy as Poetry 