Jelly madness
in sAndpaper socks
put Your hair into the earth
go iNto the dark meat of a crocodile
spitting across syncopating roachEs into
buttoCks of vibrating nostrils
we can invent new bOnes
a village libating like niagaRa falls
an armpiT of inflammable explosives
hEad units and gyrating limbs parading
Zoom
“Ms. Cortez’s work was beyond category by virtue of embodying so many categories simultaneously: written verse, African and African-American oral tradition, the discourse of political protest, and jazz and blues. Meant for the ear even more than for the eye, her words combine a hurtling immediacy with an incantatory orality.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/arts/jayne-cortez-poet-and-performance-artist-dies-at-78.html?src=rechp&_r=0
this is wonderful and so in the tradition to her work. Thank you!
Much appreciated, Latasha!