The Idea of Ancestry (Etheridge Knight Poem)
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand- ...
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand- ...
Green little vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole voice that's heard ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
In the mid August, in the second year of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter almost ...
WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, ...
Two whom were foretold these two cousins each preparing the way coming together in the water The one in the ...
The cousins together standing in the river both knowing their part in the subtle ballet Yet John unable not wanting ...
None of them truly strangers just new neighbors the face of Christ present in all the people that we meet ...
From the stem fresh from the garden warm from the sun the air in our yard The fresh tomato so ...
On the side of their house around the bulkhead between their yard and their neighbor's driveway not much there in ...
The story of Christ long before the manger the promise of God long ago, in the prophets but more than ...
The story of Luke the coming of the Christ-child started at the beginning well before he was born the visits ...
Their two lives, cousins of the flesh both parts of the history of the people threads of the prophets, unraveling, ...
Between the wall of the porch the lawn by the driveway a rhododendron jungle thick stalks a vine, intricately wound, ...
After the rains, the cold heavy fall rains, there was a different forest, a change shades of brown, of yellow, ...
John and the Christ cousins, special boys marked before their births to fulfill the prophesies the prophesies of old, long ...
His mother's voice through his mother's womb gave away his presence, his nearness his being, so close, so close a ...
Metaphors, images, concepts, pictures thoughts welled up spilled over washed over me from her words his words From the pulpit, ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into ...
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, ...
Christ God who savest man, save most Of men Count Gismond who saved me! Count Gauthier, when he chose his ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like ...
My banks are all furnished with rags, So thick, even Freddy can't thin 'em; I've torn up my old money-bags, ...
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
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