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Dennis Scott's "Epitaph"

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They hanged him on a clement morning, swung between the falling sunlight and the women's breathing like a black apostrophe to pain. All morning while the children hushed their hopscotch joy and the cane kept growing he hung there sweet and low. At least that's how they tell it. It was long ago... [ continue ...] Appreciate the poem further  here . Dennis Scott

Twenty-five poems to read again and again

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Dark August , by Derek Walcott Stars of Stone , by Rustum Kozain You, Therefore , by Reginald Shepherd Roses and Revolutions , by Dudley Randall A Girl , by Ezra Pound Confession , by Geoffrey Philp Feeling Fucked Up , by Etheridge Knight Blood , by Naomi Shihab Nye After Midnight , by Louis Simpson Telephone Conversation , by Wole Soyinka Woman , by Nikki Giovanni Adolescence II , by Rita Dove Come , by Makhosazana Xaba Silet , by Ezra Pound Seeing the Eclipse in Maine , by Robert Bly Kingdom of Rain II , by Rustum Kozain Those Winter Sundays , by Robert Hayden Digging , by Seamus Heaney Cleaning , by Kwame Dawes (click on the link to access the poem) The Schooner Flight , by Derek Walcott Not my Business , by Niyi Osundare Evening Hawk , Robert Penn Warren Sunflowers , by Pamela Mordecai Like Rousseau , by Amiri Baraka Epitaph , by Dennis Scott

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