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Mama
By Asili Ya Nadhiri I saw you
there alone
cold
with no cover
on a bed that was not yours
renting
what you always owned
just to be here near me
your brown lips were dark and
purple
calling my name as you always did
from my first breath
proclaiming the purpose of your
life
keeping me safe and warm
there you were
as helpless as I
touching hands but still alone |
Source: Asili
Ya Nadhiri. The Inner Recesses of an Abandoning Life: Tonal Drawings
Written in Poetic Form. 2004
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The
language and rhythm of African people have been an obsession
throughout my life. I can still vividly remember the heavy
syrupy dialect that impregnated my ears as a small boy, the
hypnotic rhythmning of the body movements of African people that
continue to sang to me, and the depth of the wellsprings
silently stirring inside the language forged in the North
American experience of African people. By means of my
tonal drawings, I am trying to actualize this experience-ing for
the benefit of us all.
I
am Asili Ya Nadhiri, born on August 29, 1944 in Durham,
North Carolina and raised in a small tobacco town named Clinton,
North Carolina. My undergraduate education took place at
Hampton Institute and Ithaca College, Masters at North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University, and ABD (all but
dissertation) at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
I have been an instructor of vocational agriculture in the
Orange County Public School System (Orlando, Florida) for the
past twenty-one years.
New book entitled the
inner recesses of an abandoning life by Asili Ya Nadhiri
available. For an excerpt and purchase visit www.hummdrummsung.com
A CD is inside the back cover of the
book entitled
the
inner recesses of an abandoning life; and a cassette
tape accompanies the book entitled
HUMMING DRUMMM SUNG in soft pedal tones. Nadhiri Writesasil@aol.com
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