Toi Derricotte

I was thinking about... beautiful poems

Lo bueno de estar haciendo la programación didáctica es que cada cierto tiempo me encuentro con joyas como ésta:

For black women who are afraid

A black woman comes up to me at break in the writing
workshop and reads me her poem, but she
says she can't read it out loud
because there's a woman in a car on her way
to work and her hair is blowing in the breeze
and, since her hair is blowing, the woman must be
white, and she shouldn't write about a white woman
whose hair is blowing, because
maybe the black poets will think she wants to be that woman and be
mad at her and say she hates herself,
and maybe they won't let her explain
that she grew up in a white neighborhood
and it's not her fault, it's just what she sees.
But she has to be so careful. I tell her to write
the poem about being afraid to write,
and we stand for a long time like that,
respecting each other's silence.

Toi Derricotte

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