When I was a child
my child’s hands would strain
round the green stalk
and know that within tough skin
Sweetness flows.
And cane for me was not synonymous
with slavery.
And why should it be?
Why should cane be blamed
for being born sweet?
for being desired?
Even now the woman in me
takes another shaft in hand
unabashedly,
peels it back with lips and teeth
and ignoring the taboo of time,
finds again a sweet reverie.
Marissa A Scott
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
OOOOOOOOOK
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Yes... I know that u know...
My students will get a kick out of the fact that I started back posting.
I see that one left a note on my homepage.
When I wrote this poem I was just fed up of hearing cane linked to slavery.
Why can't sugar be linked to sweetness instead?
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