This poem by Lucille Clifton reimagines Mother Earth and through the lens of blackness.
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Saeed Jones, reading from his book, "Prelude to Bruise", at Art Share LA.
Saeed Jones reads "The Blue Dress in Mother's Closet" and "Boy in a Whalebone Corset" at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival.
Prelude to Bruise is a song from a tightrope, balancing ecstatic existence and the chaos that always threatens to engulf a life on the margins.