The American Poetry Review (Digital)

The American Poetry Review (Digital)

1 Issue, May/June 2023

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ON OUR BIRTHDAY, GRACE JONES & I DISCUSS SPECTACLE

I loved to see them shudder at the sightOf a soul bared Black: a slick funk that fucked& mewled, made men knuckle, women buckle,Everyone hustle for touch. In a countryOf shame, I was an enigma: a niggaWith pride. Yes, I was named the oppositeOf sin. My angles angered my father.The child of a child of god, my fatherWas a bishop who didn’t like my business,Who begged me to clothe, to fear, to faith.I never listened. Sundays still he wouldCoax me to rise from the oakwood pews,Black as I am, hushing, ushering theCongregation to look, look at my girl. Tariq Thompson is a Black poet from Memphis. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, wildness, underblong, Sixth Finch, The Academy of American Poets, and The Adroit Journal,…
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