Black Writing || July 4, 1974

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July 4, 1974 Author(s): June Jordan Source: The Iowa Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Black Writing (Spring, 1975), p. 24 Published by: University of Iowa Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20158377 . Accessed: 15/06/2014 23:27 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . University of Iowa is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Iowa Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 62.122.79.21 on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:27:45 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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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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