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Twisted Linens & Tiny Screams is for "you, the most beautiful stanza in the shortest poem..."In this reflective tome of poetry jaha walks readers through an emotionally honest journey of the past, the present and the future so you can see yourself on the pages of the book. There are poems about life, poems about saying goodbye, poems about black girl bliss, poetry for inspiration and poetry about being a grown a*s woman.
This collection of poems for black girls are written with a storyteller's voice and are full of rhythms of inspiration. It is a journey of the most tangible moments of a womanhood as only jaha Knight has discovered it. I am a poem. I am thunder, lightening, rain and sun. I am wild kisses and peekaboo dressesLaughter and untamed tresses. I am a poem of a woman. With contradictions and contracted similes, metaphors and inappropriate punctuation...and storyD*mn, do I have a story.
I am a generation of defaultedOh h*ll nahs! When there should have been a few more h*ll yeses!I am a mother to a babywho was a babyhaving a babywhen she had her babyI am a negro spiritualwrapped in anemancipation proclamation. I am a distant moontrapped in a sunny dayI am a thrill rideOf deep stomach clenching dipsand incredible death defying highsI am the tart of lemonAnd the soothing of limeI am a poem of a woman...
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