Black Writing || July 4, 1974
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July 4, 1974Author(s): June JordanSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Black Writing (Spring, 1975), p. 24Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20158377 .
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Blown up? Explosives never destroy it.
It cannot be slung or thrown.
Primitive
but it can kill you.
July 4,1974 / June Jordan (Washington, D.C.)
At least it helps me to think about my son
a Leo/born to us
(Aries and Cancer) some
sixteen years ago in St. Johns Hospital next to the Long Island
Railroad tracks
Atlantic Avenue/Brooklyn New York
at dawn
which facts
do not really prepare you
(do they)
for him
angry serious
and running through the darkness with his own
becoming Hght
He Imagined the Gorgeous Pattern of the New Skin and Settled for America / Primus St. John
The quiet which is my wife endures:
I have hurt nothing, unless we have touched.
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