The Age of Phillis
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publication Date: Mar 03, 2020
List Price: $26.95
Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780819579492
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Parent Company: Wesleyan University
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Yaay, Someplace in the Gambia, c. 1753 after
the after-birth
is delivered
the mother stops
holding her breath
the mid-wife gives
what came before
her just-washed pain
her insanity pain
an undeserved pain
a God-given pain
oh oh oh pain
drum-talking pain
witnessing pain
Allah
a mother offers
You this gift
prays You find
it acceptable
her living pain
her creature pain
her pretty-little-baby
pain
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