I chose to listen to these poems, read to me by the author herself - and I feel like her tone, her cadance, her lilting laughter more than once, made these poems even more powerful than they would've been otherwise. In her words, I saw power and strength, I heard her self-love and acknowledgement of the deep well within women, of her love of her Blackness and unwillingness to let the world tell her anything otherwise. I heard phrases like "my spirit is the surge of open seas" and "black like the hour of the night when your love turns and wriggles close to your side" - her words are like a warm summer evening, rocking on the front porch. So glad I listened.
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