Monday, June 6, 2022

SONIA SANCHEZ ~

 




14 haiku

    for Emmett Louis Till



Your limbs buried

in northern  muscle carry 

their own heartbeat








Mississippi

alert with

conjugated pain








young Chicago

stutterer whistling

more than flesh







your pores

wild stars embracing

southern eyes








footprints blooming

in the night remember

your blood








in this southern

classroom  summer settles

into winter








i  hear your

pulse  swallowing

neglected light






your limbs

fly off the ground

little birds . ... .







we  taste the

blood ritual of

southern hands









blue midnite

breathe sailing on

smiling tongues








say no words

time is collapsing

in the woods








a mother's  eyes

remembering a cradle

pray out loud










walking in Mississippi

i hold the stars

between my teeth








your death

a blues, i could not

drink away.




______________________

Sonia Sanchez ~

Collected Poems

Beacon Press, 2021