Afircan Women by Varnette Honeywood, Print / Ink on paper. This print is from the private collection of Nivea Castro.

Baba Bozorg once wrapped / his fingers around the narrow part / Sunspotted skin around this art carriedand kept / Lifted out of a chest / full of seven decades of / morning prayers.

I am nothing, made of nothing, always / flowing towards other bodies of water / for want of freedom, or release, thinking this / to be my new beginning, a place where all my / knotting will become untied, & I, for once, / will not be seeking shelter, & instead, I will / lay myself beneath the hinterlands