Like the Singing Coming off the Drums (4 page)
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Authors: Sonia Sanchez
you tell the morning
to ease her into a water
fall of dreams
for she is a holy one
restringing her words
from city to city
so that we live and
breathe and smile and
breathe and love and
breath her …
this Gwensister called life.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for the permission to reprint from the poem “A Luta Continua” from
When the Clouds Clear
by Keorapetse Kgositsile.
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Text design by Elizabeth Elsas
Composition by Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING - IN - PUBLICATION DATA
Sanchez, Sonia, 1935–
Like the singing coming off the drums : love poems / Sonia Sanchez.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8070-6843-4 (paper)
eISBN: 978-0-8070-9531-7
1. Love poetry, American. 1. Title.
PS3569.A468L5 1998
811′.54—dc21 97-33326