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Oh, how she read this. Girl
beloved daughter of daughters
blood, kin, and kind

 

sagacious grammarian
post-fly phoneticist

 

every syllable she say be sapphires

 

Oh, how she read that Girl
beloved daughter of daughters
blood, kin, and kind

 

sassy semiotician
post-def decoder

 

every book she crack parts oceans,
sends waves rushing back to their shores

 

every page she turn sets free a caged bird,
whose wings are spread and ready for flight

 

Oh, how she read, this Girl
beloved daughter of daughters
blood, kin, and kind,

 

post-dope dissenter
mos-bomb seditionist

 

every word she speak be a teeth-sucking act of resistance

 

every word she write be a battle cry

 

every tap of her pen be the beat of an ancestor’s drum

from How She Read

Chantal Gibson


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