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Black Poetry Post #18 - Returning Spring

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Returning Spring - Pauli Murray

I’ll sink my roots far down
And drink from hidden rivers,
Renew my kinship with growing things—
The little ants will hold their congresses
Upon my arm, and cautious insects
Will make brief tours across my brows
And spiders spin webs from toe to toe.

The spears of sun will prick
No blade of grass to wakefulness
But I shall feel it tremble,
No further straw be laid upon a nest,
No twig but I shall see it quiver.

I’ll hear the symphonies within a stone,
Catch every murmur of the ground,
Travel the heavens with each vagrant cloud
And ark the golden islands in the sky.

“Returning Spring” by Pauli Murray in The Garden Thrives, edited by Clarence Major,

Pauli Murray, “Returning Spring” in Dark Testament, 1970.

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