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MY LOVER'S NAME
- By Taiyon Coleman
- Published 10/6/2003
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He saves me.
My lover breaks
bread for my heart.
He makes wine
soaking loaves full
of my blood.
His body removes
pains and stains
treading Orion
carrying them east
to the Southern Cross.
I am crying residue
salty of Him.
I am crying His sugarcane
sweetness, deepening with voice
smelling his smells
licking his tongue
caressing his teeth with prayered lips.
My lover saves me
Indian Oceans
blue sheets
coral rocked red
Bahari sand
white mosquito nets
saving me from myself.
He is a Pisces Savior
multiplying fish.
Satisfying my hunger.
His fingers in mine
I am waiting to come
enjoying anticipation.
Learning Him.
Knowing Him
Loving Him.
My lover's name
is Emmanuel.
He saves me.
Copyright © Taiyon Coleman, 2003. All Rights Reserved.
Taiyon Coleman
Taiyon Coleman is a member of Cave Canem, a national workshop for African-American poets, where she worked with Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Elizabeth Alexander, Nikky Finney, Michael Harper, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Sonia Sanchez. Her work has appeared in Ethos, Knotgrass, Sketch, Cave Canem Anthology IV and V, DrumVoices Revue, Sauti Mpya, Words Will Heal the Wound: A Celebration of Community Through Poetry CD Volume II, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, and A View from the Loft. Recently, Taiyon was a featured reader with poet Nikki Giovanni in Chicago at the Hot House, celebrating the YWCA's national day to eliminate racism. Taiyon Coleman holds a MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she worked with Alexs Pate, Patricia Hampl, and Ray Gonzalez. She also holds a Master's and a Bachelor's degree in English from Iowa State University, where she became a Ronald McNair Scholar, and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
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