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Yoakum Poems - Poems about Yoakum

Where I'M From
...I am from my daddy's drunken heart, beating so fast as though flung from a furious circle of women who are welcoming the men back from the hunt. I am from my mother's matted eyes. My mother, a ......

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Categories: yoakum, black african american, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Helen's Quilt
...From the Kente' cloth﷯﷯ etched into the fibers﷯﷯ like your knitted embryo﷯﷯ when I carried you﷯﷯ ﷯﷯From the Yoakum cloth﷯&......

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Categories: yoakum, black african american, caregiving,
Form: Free verse


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