where we come from, sometimes, beauty
floats around us like clouds
the way leaves rustle in the breeze
and cornbread and barbecue swing out the backdoor
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Ms. Shange, I am reading your poems for the first time today. I knew nothing about you until now. I see or just saw your picture. You are a beauty. I bet that you're beautiful inside and outside. That's a blessing. And I love your poems. I will give you a million points.
Sometimes beauty floas around us like clouds! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
always fetchin' dreams from a horizon strewn with bones and flesh of those of us who didn't make it whose smiles and deep dark eyes help us to continue to see there's so much life here. wonderful description. tony