Breasts full middled
Face radiant comfort girl or inhouse breeder
Equipment ripe unreconciled no prior attempts
Stance bitter ravenous recoiled
Hate makes her servile
Buttocks firm raised wide
Hiding style plain sight
Petite frame tribal marking on the face above right upper lip entropic indent
Mouth full/careful
Teeth so hip made to break the language open & fix her name a home
Likelihood of inducing owner’s empathy or love or lust high
Likelihood she has suitors of her own kind certain
Likelihood they will take the whip for her or run away when held at gunpoint unclear
Likelihood the president will date her on stage unknown, what are you even saying?
Name : M a a f a
Meaning Black Holocaust astonishing surrender ma at kick rocks, those are diamonds
Beautiful walking graves chased off the water
Skin perfect no blemishes or permutations in pigment
Hair coiled star in the center of a tight afro scar of a star
Eyes unimpressed still a little wistful
Nose wide & aquiline at the same time
Symmetry impeccable dangerous
Tone of voice bewildered
Likelihood she’d call Jesus daddy?
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Maafa by Harmony Holiday is available via Fence Books.

Harmony Holiday
Harmony Holiday is a poet, dancer, archivist, mythscientist and the author of Negro League Baseball (Fence, 2011), Go Find Your Father/ A Famous Blues (Ricochet 2014) and Hollywood Forever (Fence, 2015). She was the winner of the 2013 Ruth Lily Fellowship and she curates the Afrosonics archive, a collection of rare and out-of print-lps highlighting work that joins jazz and literature through collective improvisation.