It's as if you are given the firmament to carry.

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It's as if you are given the firmament to carry,

lift it in succession your shoulders and take it to lunch

sit in McDonald's with it weighing you down,

this business of being black, of staying black

until the darkness of near eternity kisses you.

Birth gives you something other folk thank

the maker for not having, or otherwise they pray for it,

to have its gift of a carcass inclined to touch,

inclined to sing. now they will not give back

to the first cause the paleness of being able to touch

absolute power. They hate only for so long,

as being black is being limit to danger.

Among us there are masters like Monk

who understood the left hand stride

onward a brick. In his rapturous dance beside



the piano, he was communicateed to silence.

He danced the disconnected degrees to knowing

the scratch and slide of the shoe leaving

the region the shoes of the lynched men

He carried this thing that we are,

as the mystic he was, reveling in its magic,

decorous of its anger, mute and unchanged

at the hate and begrudge surrounding us.

the same day we learn there is no canopy of heaven above

this trapped air around the earth.

The weather is but a puff of idle talk from

this giant head smoking a fortunate Strike,

pretending not to know the truths

We learn sometimes in this life,

sometimes in what results after, where

there is really nothing however everything

we at no time knew. We learn in silence

the dance Monk knew We find

hids for pulling the million arrows

from our vital principles each time we move

to slumber to forget that we are both

jewel and jetsam, wanted and unforgiven.

Michael s Weaver's fifth book of metrical compositions is Timber & Prayer. His forthcoming verse volume is Talisman, and his novel play is Candy Lips & Hallelujah. His short fiction is included in Gloria Naylor's Children of the Night. Choice magazine has described Weaver as common of the most important imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers of his generation.

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