Friday, March 14, 2014

Reading `History, by Camille Rankine


‘Welcome to It’
Camille Rankine
Our stone wall was built by slaves and my bones, my bones
are paid for. We have two 
of everything, twice heavy
in our pockets, warming
our two big hands.

This is the story, as I know it. One morning:
the ships came, as foretold, and death
pearl-handled, almost 
and completely.
How cheap a date I turned out to be . . . . 
Reference: Welcome to It.

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