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audre lorde - dahomey lyrics

it was in abomey that i feltthe full blood of my fathers’ wars and where i found my motherseboulisastanding with outstretched palms hip high one breast eaten away by worms of sorrowmagic stones resting upon her fingersdry as a cough.in the dooryard of the brass workers four women joined together dying their clothmock eshu’s iron quiver standing erect and flamingly familiar in their dooryard mute as a porcupine in a forest of lead
in the courtyard of the cloth workers other brothers and nephews are stitching bright tapеstries into tales of blood. thunder is a woman with braidеd hair spelling the fas of shangoasleep between sacred pythons that cannot read nor eat the ritual offerings of the asein
my throat in the panther’s lairis unresisting
bearing two drums on my head i speak whatever language is needed to sharpen the knives of my tonguethe snake is aware although sleepingu nder my blood since i am a woman whether or not you are against me i will braid my hair even in the seasons of rain

- audre lorde lyrics

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