#mari evans

[yumizverse]

[expatesque]

[theshatterednotes]

American writer Mari Evans

[thatwritererinoriordan]

July 16: Catcher In the Rye

Erin O'Riordan published a post on Ko-fi

[sweetsoftwaters]

Enjoy the journey as it happens, no connivance, no imposed order, no subject segments. Just life as it is lived

Mari Evans, Continuum: New & Selected Poems 

[83-for-truth]

[renee561]

I am a black woman

tall as a cypress

strong

beyond all definition still

defying place

and time

and circumstance

assailed

impervious

indestructible

Look

on me and be

renewed

- Mari Evans, I am a Black Woman

A belated birthday gift for @lesbians-love-samwilson aka @futureauthor-mabye because she is amazing, and so strong.

[universitybookstore]

I AM A BLACK WOMAN

I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night I saw my mate leap screaming to the sea and I/with these hands/cupped the lifebreath from my issue in the canebrake I lost Nat's swinging body in a rain of tears and heard my son scream all the way from Anzio for Peace he never knew....I learned Da Nang and Pork Chop Hill in anguish Now my nostrils know the gas and these trigger tire/d fingers seek the softness in my warrior's beard I am a black woman tall as a cypress strong beyond all definition still defying place and time and circumstance assailed impervious indestructible Look on me and be renewed

-- Mari Evans (mural by  Michael (ALKEMI) Jordan, on the Davlan Building, Mass Ave.)