Harmony Holiday

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Harmony spends most of her time in New York, by way of Berkeley, by way of L.A., by way of Iowa, by way of the Delta, by way of Jamestown, by way of the Middle Passage, by way of Sicily, by way of Ghana, by way of the planet Sirius, by glint of the gibbous moon, because of sunspots on the sun. Her first book Negro League Baseball, will be published by Fence this spring.

Excerpt: (poem from the book)

Puts me in the Mind of

Ike’s mood 50, six degrees of separation, you cry in your sleep how each world began differently In mine for example, two black men hugging, no chaperone, no domain to stone in them and it’s patronizing that you even like me again

Against your lazy sentences, about being about it- what brisk diplomacy- System-My Ships, have become yours and reported and veteran, how distracted, how enormous, how tugboat, how come    High Risk

my sister, my sailor for instance                 Centers in the circle of a crowd

 

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