<div class="line">If you did not resist</div>
<div class="line">May’s light might sing different.</div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">There’s still spring in the battlefields</div>
<div class="line">And everywhere there is blood.</div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">Underneath everything, the skin</div>
<div class="line">Of the world breathes, even when</div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">It is not broken. Speaking of love</div>
<div class="line">Is not love. That’s the secret.</div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">My own father taught me.</div>
<div class="line">He left like a season, but in that </div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">Simple season, when he fished </div>
<div class="line">In the muddy creek and made love </div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">To my mother, that was love.</div>
<div class="line">Some of the loves you can’t remember,</div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">Some have no names. I was born</div>
<div class="line">In a love that did not last, some</div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">Of the loves are everlasting, some</div>
<div class="line">Are like the sun rising. We are not born</div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">To fight, but we do, and we tangle love </div>
<div class="line">In that fight, we resist the changing </div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">Of the seasons with history and memory,</div>
<div class="line">Make a Bible of what was said.</div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">I don’t know his face. Or the way he danced</div>
<div class="line">And made my mother smile. But I know</div>
<div class="line">&nbsp; </div>
<div class="line">He sang sometimes and she liked it.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/YaoFather.mp3"></audio></figure>

Cut Clove

[By] Halves

My Father Speaks of His Father.

<div class="line">all the men who called my father nigger</div>
<div class="line">stand with all the men who have called me nigger</div>
<div class="line">in a line outside the capitol. some just arrive.</div>
<div class="line">they fall into the back of the line saying nigger,</div>
<div class="line">nigger, nigger, out into the night like morse code.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">there is dust in their mouth mixed with the water</div>
<div class="line">of wisdom, a truth they know that is not nigger</div>
<div class="line">but mixed to mud that is a dirty knowing a broken</div>
<div class="line">record of speech and thought and urge.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">there is another line, next to theirs, for the ones</div>
<div class="line">who call me nigger in secret, under their breath</div>
<div class="line">and with their eyes, whispering it between one another</div>
<div class="line">a code, yes, him, they nod, the nigger over there</div>
<div class="line">the niggers over there. look at them.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">and all over the world niggers are dying, like speech</div>
<div class="line">whose reality never was, niggers tumbling over niggers</div>
<div class="line">trying to get on top. niggers fighting for the right to</div>
<div class="line">be niggers in the real live world. to cross from fantasy</div>
<div class="line">into the world of flesh, to grab the last boat to america.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">and there’s another line of people who think nigger</div>
<div class="line">and then think, my father, my mother said that, my</div>
<div class="line">grandmother and grandfather said that, nigger</div>
<div class="line">tradition, i do not want to say that, i do not want</div>
<div class="line">to say such a terrible thing, though i am perplexed</div>
<div class="line">by some of them calling themselves that, confused,</div>
<div class="line">why? that’s not right, but it’s still not right to call</div>
<div class="line">them it in secret, under our breath, so terrible.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">it is a great conflict, like storms over barren planets</div>
<div class="line">with no water. that i know nigger is wrong but some</div>
<div class="line">part of nigger still makes sense. to know that feeling</div>
<div class="line">to understand that argument, between warring selves</div>
<div class="line">imagine it a great struggle between reason and passion.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">there is a graveyard full of niggers that only the nigger</div>
<div class="line">sayers know of. i’ve seen the niggers. do you know</div>
<div class="line">any niggers?</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">and the people who sometimes get called niggers wander</div>
<div class="line">about in camouflage and espionage. they won’t stand in line</div>
<div class="line">cuz ain’t no niggers allowed in the line, they meander about,</div>
<div class="line">wander with their hands in their pockets singing negro spirituals</div>
<div class="line">so nobody think they listening, so nobody wonder as they</div>
<div class="line">wander, you could say they try to look like niggers knowing</div>
<div class="line">the difference between them and niggers, wearing nigger</div>
<div class="line">like a hoody when necessary, when it’s cold outside and</div>
<div class="line">they need something to cover them, to keep the cold out.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">they study the speech of the nigger sayers and mix it</div>
<div class="line">gumbo into the speech they speak, and adapt, put a</div>
<div class="line">bass line under it, and make it sound so funky, even hate</div>
<div class="line">seem harmless, like a blade dulled from overuse, like a tool</div>
<div class="line">beaten against the earth so much it grows dull and only</div>
<div class="line">looks like a tool in the hands of the slave on a hot day</div>
<div class="line">with someone screaming over your shoulder WORK!</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">and the longest line, the one that stretches out</div>
<div class="line">the door, out of the capital city, zigzagging through</div>
<div class="line">richmond and the good south, through day-long</div>
<div class="line">drive texas, back up to the northeast, the great lakes</div>
<div class="line">and west through those beautiful states with trees</div>
<div class="line">and land that makes the jaw drop like the canyons,</div>
<div class="line">and the plains, and the deserts, tundra, palm trees</div>
<div class="line">is the line where people think niggers, nigger shit,</div>
<div class="line">jacked up shit, and there is no one who fits</div>
<div class="line">the description to be found. nobody nobody</div>
<div class="line">to be conjured as nigger anywhere around.</div>
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An Abecedarian for the Unmentionable

One Smile

Putting the Niggers to Rest

<div class="line">Someone waits all day for a letter</div>
<div class="line">And when the mail comes it doesn’t</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Someone says I love you and the words</div>
<div class="line">Fall like snow towards the warm windows</div>
<div class="line">Of the rich man’s house. They melt when</div>
<div class="line">They touch, but the touch makes them nothing</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Someone loses their name and walks back</div>
<div class="line">Through the woods to find it, but the weather</div>
<div class="line">Has turned the ground white</div>
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The Cold Bench

Takeoff

Winter’s Blues

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