Mississippi lips
Lousiana tongue
West African shaped nose
Skin kissed by the sun
Israelite Culture
American Captive
Egyptian Color
russet brown
seal
dark puce
blue black eastern man
blue black woman
symbols of authority over her head
natural beauty no longer dead
hair like sisal rope
braided
coiled
nappy
strong
prayer hands that crack open the sky
from the place of the rising sun
to a land that sought to shackle their tongues
run aways
slave ships
cotton fields
those days
share
croppin
jim crowing
freedom ridin
no more hidin
Mississippi lips
Lousiana tongue
West African shaped nose
Skin kissed by the sun
brown skin








