When the Ghosts Come Ashore
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I first read this in one sitting, but I will be re-reading it slowly again soon. These poems are all powerful. I wanted to sit with the words longer. I recommend pausing after every poem to feel the weight. Can't wait to see what Germain gives us next.
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When the Ghosts Come Ashore - Jacqui Germain
Itis
SANKOFA
I wrote a poem once abo ut
black boys disappearing right
out of the like a shut
mouth a stream
of bullets right down
its throat. All of t heir black
boy eyes lik e b l a c k
rocks staring at me right off
the page like they wouldn’t
sink if I dropped them all
in a r i v e r. And I wonder if
it’s healthy to keep all these
ghosts in my pocket. All their
hands that you can’t
see but they push
things around when you
aren’t
even looking. What the body
becomes when it carries you and them.
How your bones n e g o t i a t e
weight and weightless,
learn to manage the absence
and the homecoming in every
reunion. We black folks who bend
words, folks who celebrate the ghosts
that show up