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I have crossed an ocean
I have lost my tongue
from the root of the old one
a new one has sprung.
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Not every skin-teeth
is a smile "Massa"
if you see me smiling
when you pass
if you see me bending
when you ask
Know that I smile
know that I bend
only the better
to rise and strike
again.
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I come from web of kin
from sacred new yam reapings.
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Grace Nichols
Born:
January 18, 1950
(age 75)
Bio:
Grace Nichols is a Guyanese poet, who moved to Britain in 1977. Her first collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
Known for:
The fat black woman's poems (1984)
I is a long memoried woman (1983)
Whole of a morning sky (1986)
Startling the flying fish (2005)
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