Grace Nichols - I is a long memoried woman (1983)

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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.

Grace Nichols

I come from web of kin
from sacred new yam reapings.

Grace Nichols