Black Love

Black love, provide the adequate electric
for what is lapsed and lenient in us now.

Rouse us from blur.  Call us.

Call adequately the postponed corner brother.
And call our man in the pin-stripe suiting and restore
    him to his abler logic; to his people.

Call to the shattered sister and repair her
in her difficult hour, narrow her fever.

Call to the Elders--
our customary grace and further sun
loved in the Long-ago, loathed in the Lately;
a luxury of languish and f rust.

Appraise, asses our Workers in the Wild, lest they
    descend to malformation and to undertow.

Black love, define and escort our romantic young,
    be means and redemption, discipline.

Nourish our children--proud, strong
little men upright-easy:
quick
flexed
little stern-warm historywomen...
I see them in Ghana, Kenya, in the city of Dar-es-
    Salaam, in Kalamazoo, Mound Bayou, in Chicago.

Lovely loving children
with long soft eyes.

Black love, prepare us all for interruptions;
assults, unwanted pauses; furnish for leavings and
    for losses.

Just come out Blackly glowing!

On the ledges---int he lattices--against the falling
    light of candles that stutter,
and in the chop and challenge of our apprehension--
be
the Alwayswonderful of this world.