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"Guinea Woman" (Lorna Goddison)

August 15, 2016 Leila Green

Jamaica / 2000

"They forbade great grandmother's
guinea woman presence
they washed away her scent of
cinnamon and escallions
controlled the child's antelope walk
and called her uprisings rebellions."

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