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photos from home: Mar 11, 2009
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Poetry - Always in flux! View my complete profile. Author: Cheri Paris Edwards. A request, please. Spring boy don't come this way. Bellowing loud like a gusty wind. That rattles flimsy apartment windows. Got no interest in a roaring march cub,. Shaking the glass with rumbling promises-. To sweep in courageous and powerful, only to. Dissipate when the first warm front comes. Along gone with barely a whimper. Waiting for a seasoned breeze,. Blowing calm and confident,. Flinging aside autumn’s drear,.
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photos from home: Nov 9, 2007
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Poetry - Always in flux! Black Spectatorship and the Politics of Skin Color. View my complete profile. Author: Cheri Paris Edwards. Goodnight, Aunt Tom. Aunt Tom's couch reigned majestic. It's kingdom a small, square living room. It's vinyl skin stuck to my legs when I. Sat on it. “Don’t touch me! 8221; the slick cushions. Seemed to warn and I didn’t want to. Mama says, “My mother and your Aunt Ida. And Aunt Tom were good with money. They. Bought homes with money they earned. Who yapped at my feet. 8220;...
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photos from home: Sep 11, 2009
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Poetry - Always in flux! View my complete profile. Author: Cheri Paris Edwards. Dreamin’s out of season. I want to sing love songs again,. In blue light, we danced the popcorn. Poured into basement squares love called. Slow dancing, boy holding girl, pulled close. 8216;La-la means I love you,’ hummed sweet in my ear. I remember the afro-ed doo-wop group. From East St. Louis spin-dancing. In slick blue getups straight out of. Singing in soaring falsetto,. Dreamin’s out of season…. What do they know?
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photos from home: Feb 2, 2008
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Poetry - Always in flux! Black Spectatorship and the Politics of Skin Color. View my complete profile. Author: Cheri Paris Edwards. Not another sad black girl song. Rising, ain’t shining,. Like a blistery yellow-gold sun,. Like a silvery moon. Ain’t flying by the seat. Of no worn-out polyester pants,. But struttin’ strong in jeans. Fittin’ like a deep blue glove. Ain’t draggin’ round the same. Ole’ travel-weary path. Forkin’ right this time,. Steppin’ briskly toward. Ain’t singing no sad black girl.
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photos from home: Nov 6, 2007
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Poetry - Always in flux! Black Spectatorship and the Politics of Skin Color. View my complete profile. Author: Cheri Paris Edwards. Dawn spreads afternoon blankets. Fleeting days dim to "fly-by-nights.". Weeks wink into months that flit by,. Leaving just the wispy scent of a year. Already gone. stealthily, I shadow. Time's trail, only to land steps. Behind my prey- hunted moments. Already tittering in the past. "if. I could put time in a bottle," I would,. But quick, fast and in a hurry-. Smile and she d...
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photos from home: Nov 3, 2007
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Poetry - Always in flux! Black Spectatorship and the Politics of Skin Color. View my complete profile. Author: Cheri Paris Edwards. I stride the bend, legs warming. At the turn, the moon greets. Unwilling to relinquish night’s flow,. She blusters brilliant. Irrepressibly. Fading, she glowers nonchalant-. Transparent in her reluctance to be. Outshone by a sun- brighter, warmer,. Perhaps more important than she. Wind-wakened now, I welcome the. Familiar sound- rhythmic slapping. Author: Cheri Paris Edwards.
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photos from home: Nov 14, 2008
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Poetry - Always in flux! Black Spectatorship and the Politics of Skin Color. View my complete profile. Author: Cheri Paris Edwards. Frowns drawn from sunlight glittering. Through spring-leaved trees. we three pose. Limber-limbs skim crisp autumn leaves. Knees pale rusty white, the burning cold. Screaming winter’s advent. uncaring, we. Sing-songed numb-lipped, “what time is it-. 8221; freeze tag springs rain into. Catching-lightening-bug" summer dark,. Cooling up falls warmed by Boone’s Farm.
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photos from home: Mar 23, 2009
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Poetry - Always in flux! Black Spectatorship and the Politics of Skin Color. View my complete profile. Author: Cheri Paris Edwards. I squeezed through the narrow Amtrak train door,. The box I held, my guide. with the side of a foot. I pushed the sturdy cardboard until it joined the. Other packages and suitcases littering the square. Cemented lot. sitting on an unsteady container. Stuffed with my belongings outside the one-room. College town train station, I mopped away late. I knew why I was there. Seduc...
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