I inherited a legacy
cotton is my inheritance
cotton
chain gangs&
songs about chariots
chariots chain gangs & cotton
joe turner came and never left
he over yo shoulder cotton on
his breath my memory of cotton
is older than me
carried in corpuscles
in racial memory
stretched across sagging dreams
the smell of 10 cent pop bottles
in dead peoples hands
on porches long gone to the bank
sweat & dreams gone
gone like the booms
looming in the fails
whispering tales
bout old cotton
& crosses burning
moonshine courage
bruised hands busted backs
bent to near breaking
seasoned
bending picking toting
bending bending bending
not broken
dreaming of chariots
dreaming in motion
tales of locomotives
before trains
wary of twisted motives
remembering boats
movement as medicine
cotton the disease
joe turner on jim crows white horse
cotton hoods
cotton flags
joe turner on jim crows horse
seasoning dreams
swallowing the sun
eating the sky
drinking the ocean
cotton says you should remember
bending bending bending
not broken
be instructed by cotton
on the true nature of
jim & joe
cotton on their breath
riding white horses in cotton hoods
cotton done been the death
of me surely as the shadows
of strange fruit hanging
from bitter trees dancing
in the wind as life leaves
the host joins the holy ghost
to tell tales
of cotton remembered
in corpuscles not to be forgotten
rather passed in blood to
the young who pack the
memory in the bags they
carry filled with
old things
the smell of the sea &
the tales of cotton
This was my next blog. I am just going to send via email. We have to see ourselves and our history from another perspective, tales, lore, fables, prose, etc. To “Flip the Switch” revive both the hero and the scoundrels. Give our lives, our struggles meaning. Well done, Dr. Nzinga, well done. A Keeper. Karen Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 06:06:57 +0000 To: asumcatring@hotmail.com
Cotton is talking to me. I have had conversations with water, dirt, and ink — now cotton is tugging on my sleeve. I will share what it tells me. Thank you for reading. I am very appreciative that the work speaks to you.