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Moon still sunkisses our moon-assed  /  bareness

 

 

Books by Kola Boof  

 

Nile River Woman (Poems, Feb. 10, 2004)  / Long Train to the Redeeming Sin-Stories About African Women (April 6, 2004)

 Flesh and the Devil: A Novel (May 11, 2004)  /   Diary of a Lost Girl (2007)

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MY MASTER, MY HUSBAND

--Traditional

Once there is blood involved
it is out of our hands
(Jebena)
In the river, where Cushite women
bled a thousand year cycle.
tima!/the soldier's wine
..tinting the NILE; Your Orange
Moon still sunkisses our moon-assed
bareness

here, my lover, where you
drew us BLACK and of a lion
and a lamb
God has spilled his joy! (and
I still drink it)

here where I come
(born over and over again)

to be naked with you

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