I will do it again, in this swoop towards the sun.
Another black sheathed summer,
sleeved in canvas sweat and thick hats,
every 90 degree noon blistered waxy eczema red
in scorching bliss. There is something in it
winding mummified through to fingers and throat
while the other girls dance gypsy in white silk breeze.

I spend my best suns baking
in the black clay of dried rivers
laid out to desert heats. No sandy scrubbing,
torn hair, prayer, convulsive song
I take out my method by kicking
my coals to orange and gold
until skin burns through shroud.

Winter ices memory. Contrary, 
I coax out color. Fucshia, violet, 
rose. Antarctica is the secret city of the sun, where morning 
glory vines swing jungle to wild dragonflies for mutual capture.
Summer peels, like a sandy-handed boy, [as though fruit 
were the tearing enemy], frustrated white-knuckled,
and I am black, sleeved, shut. 



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