Tortured Fragments

 By lasana m. sekou

singing ship of the watersea&bloodtear

singing field of the canecut&cottonred

shear of skin

seared open

&corned with pond plots of salt

&pounds scalding of branded flesh

&grim sounds of reaping mines all in mourning signs

cast well before centuries in shanty&shoutout&hollah’hollah

in a din, a done, a deal, a blasted den

to singing forest

&oooh’carry us away captivity…

… require from us a song, a son, a tongue of the book unsilenced

&gasssssssssssssssssssssssOven&horrowinghell

&chamber of blood burnt of its bleed over

what to do unto others &ore knotted memory

to centennial hymen&clot of the clicketyclick symphony

that whistling rock&blood of allah’allah

singing singing, singing intifada…

© 2003  by Lasana M. Sekou