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I am not seaworthy. Look how the fish mistake my hair for home. Five Poems, featuring the poetry of Toni Morrison, illustrated by Kara Walker, was published as part of a project called “Rainmaker Editions” under the aegis of the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML).
I am not seaworthy. Look how the fish mistake my hair for home. Five Poems, featuring the poetry of Toni Morrison, illustrated by Kara Walker, was published as part of a project called “Rainmaker Editions” under the aegis of the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML).
Eve Remembering. Toni Morrison. 1931 –. 2019. 1. I tore from a limb fruit that had lost its green. My hands were warmed by the heat of an apple. Fire red and humming. I bit sweet power to the core.
1. I tore from a limb fruit that had lost its green. My hands were warmed by the heat of an apple. Fire red and humming. I bit sweet power to the core. How can I say what it was like? The taste! The taste undid my eyes. And led me far from the gardens planted for a child. To wildernesses deeper than any master’s call. 2.
Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. She received a BA from Howard University in 1953 and an MA from Cornell University in 1955. She was the author of one volume of poetry, Five Poems (Rainmaker Editions, 2002), which features poems alongside illustrations by Kara Walker.
Someone leans near. And sees the salt your eyes have shed. You wait, longing to hear. Words of reason, love or play. To lash or lull you toward the hollow day. Silence kneads your fear. Of crumbled star-ash sifting down. Clouding the rooms here, here. You shore up your heart to run.
I am not seaworthy. Look how the fish mistake my hair for home. I had a life, like you. I shouldn’t be riding the sea. I am not seaworthy. Let me be earth bound; star fixed. Mixed with sun and smacking air. Give me the smile, the magic kiss. To trick little boy death of my hand.
Author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88, reports the New York Times. "In awarding the Nobel to Ms. Morrison, the Swedish Academy cited her 'novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import,' through which she 'gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.'" writes Margalit Fox. More:
New fiction by Toni Morrison: “With that skin, there was no point in being tough or sassy, even when you were right.”.
Toni Morrison “The Dead of September 11” Some have God's words; others have songs of comfort for the bereaved. If I can pluck courage here, I would like to speak directly to the dead--the September dead. Those children of ancestors born in every continent on the planet: Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas...;