Audre Lorde

I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America. These are fearless assertions of identity, told with incantatory power.

The Black Unicorn

Tyler Franklin

Marion

For those of us who were imprinted with fear

like a faint line in the center of our foreheads learning to be afraid with our mother's milk for by this weapon

this illusion of some safety to be found the heavy-footed hoped to silence us

For all of us this instant and this triumph

And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain

when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning

when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion

when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again

when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish

when we are alone we are afraid love will never return

and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed

but when we are silent we are still afraid.

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