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Her
Voice
For
Dr.
Nina
Simone
By
Mariahadessa
Ekere
Tallie
Bowl
of
crushed
blueberries,
knife
edge,
cracked
calabash,
heavy
truth,
ancient
wine
and
renegade
bones,
rise
up
white
wings
of
doves,
tapestry
of
nerve,
daughter
of
well-aimed
lightning
Blinded
compromise
nail
like
tongue
bitter
root,
burnt
honey
tornado
blackness
bent-backed
women
walked
up
her
throat,
flew
straight
arrow
from
her
mouth,
Mississippi,
Gullah,
Baptism,
the
Nile,
Congo,
belly
of
Slave
ships,
Harlem
potent
cocktail
of
her
Pitch
black
notes
divined
riots
on
piano
keys,
exiled,
and
passion
and
turbulent
ritual.
She
was
that
sound
in
the
racing
heart
of
thunder
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posted 31
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