In the Beginning, There Was the Word

For Joe Minter, the African Village in America, and 1504And when those white-sailed ships piled us together, cargo in the hull of hell, the word rode with us, our tongues anointed with the power of God. When the lash found our language, when they said don’t read or write, our tongues were still gilded with a heavenly word. We still…

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