SPLIT THIS ROCK: Poems of Provocation
& Witness
E. Ethelbert Miller
TOMORROW
tomorrow
i will take the
journey back
sail
the
middle passage
it
would be better
to be packed
like spoons again
than
to continue to
live among
knives and forks
PANAMA
in the early twenties
a boat brought
my father to America
his first impressions
were spoken in Spanish
years later when he
had forgotten the
language he could not
remember what he had
seen
E. Ethelbert Miller
is the board chair of the Institute for Policy Studies and the director
of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. He is
editor of Poet Lore.
Published
in Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2008.
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