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Iron Market
By Octavia McBride-Ahébée
Desiré arrives home
right before the moon falls into La Gonave
and the sun, coy, smelling of human waste,
ascends from its night visit into Port-au-Prince.
During these dawn raids into our home,
Desiré, my bon mari, is always drunk on bark beer
consumed not in a whole evening of empty revelry
but from a moment, maybe a few,
after he has bent his knees,
knotted with the strength of bamboo sticks
and opened his behind with the stoic arrogance
of a peacock spreading is plume,
to let in strangers from the North
for a gourde or two
to feed our stomachs
and bring color back to the hair of our children.
From ASSUMING VOICES
Published by Lit Pot Press/Poets Potpourri Collection
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