BLACKLUCYNEGRO I

The idea of her
warm brown
body long stretching
under his hands
is a righteous want—
she’s become an Other
way to talk about skin,
the world-heavy mule
of her, borne line by line
down the page:
run and tell everything,
every truth you ever knew
about BlackLucyNegro.
Say she is the loose light.
Say she is the root.
Say she ate at his table.
Say she ate at all. Say she.
Say she. Say she.