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Chapter 66: Spring Reminiscence

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About This Book

A collection of tightly crafted lyrics that probe racial identity, aesthetic aspiration, and personal longing. The poet alternates intimate love poems and public meditations, drawing on classical, religious, and contemporary imagery. Recurring themes include the pain and pride of Black experience, the tension between artistic vocation and social constraint, and reflections on mortality and faith. Formally, poems move between sonnet-like lyrics, epigrams, narrative vignettes, and elegies, marked by musical diction, formal control, and occasional irony. Together the pieces balance tenderness and critique to examine how beauty, suffering, and creative voice intersect under social pressures.

Spring Reminiscence

“MY sweet,” you sang, and, “Sweet,” I sang,

And sweet we sang together,

Glad to be young as the world was young,

Two colts too strong for a tether.

Shall ever a spring be like that spring,

Or apple blossoms as white;

Or ever clover smell like the clover

We lay upon that night?

Shall ever your hand lie in my hand,

Pulsing to it, I wonder;

Or have the gods, being jealous gods,

Envied us our thunder?