Author: Audre Lorde

I. My face resembles your face Less and less each day. When I was young No one mistook whose child […]

There are so many roots to the tree of anger That sometimes the branches shatter Before they bear. Sitting in […]

The black unicorn is greedy. The black unicorn is impatient. ‘The black unicorn was mistaken For a shadow or symbol […]

I Is the total black, being spoken From the earth’s inside. There are many kinds of open How a diamond […]

An upright abutment in the mouth Of the Willis Avenue bridge A beige Honda leaps the divider Like a steel […]

I am fourteen And my skin has betrayed me The boy I cannot live without Still sucks his tumb In […]

Time collapses between the lips of strangers My days collapse into a hollow tube Soon implodes against now Like an […]

New Year’s Day 1:16 AM And my body is weary beyond Time to withdraw and rest Ample room allowed me […]