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VISIT&FELLOWSHIP II
By
Lasana M. Sekou
i&i
in eternal
seeding time
traverse the
frontiers of memory and matter
in perennial
quest of harvest
weave a
hemisphere of holes
under the
overcast of manifest destiny
para sembrar
luces de libertad in the backroads
to fire the
catacombs of poverty stifling still with
our multitude
from colón to
cortez
from pizarro to
puritans
from founding
fathers to feeding empire
from the middle
passage helled up hull of “Desire” to Hollywood
we have been
contesting since lost motherland
the approaches
to motherlode sinews of war
blood mead for
the wealth of nations
we are a rake of
fingers seeding what is budding over adolescent
the renewing
image of i&i
coming ever
closer
to understand
this thing about rightful claim is to engage the contest
POWER.
the w.e.b. done said:
“. . .
concedes nothing without demand . . .”
LOVE
constructs all
things by sweat&sacrifice&study&science
holy democracy
is ascendant
by the rejoicing
of every orifice
that stakes the
claims for which we have been manure and claim the stakes
engage the
contest . . .
power to do right or perish.
© 1994 by Lasana M.
Sekou from
"The Salt Reaper - poems from the flats (2005, House of Nehesi
Publishers) |
