Reckoning Song

Submitted by Matthew on 6 March, 2013 - 12:28

Samiya Bashir’s poem stakes a claim to universal access to joy and freedom. It takes the form of a series of questions, but there are no question marks, and the lack of the formal interrogative turns the poem from a tentative wondering into a series of demands for the way things should be.

Samiya Bashir is an African-American poet born in Somalia and the founder of “Fire & Ink”, an organisation supporting and promoting the work of LGBT writers of African descent.

Several of her poems appear on her website as photo-art pieces. We reproduce “Reckoning Song” here as it appears on her site. For more, see here.

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