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Epilogue
Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife

Melba Joyce Boyd

gypsy fortunetellers
revealed the fate
of the undiscovered
country charted
in the black glimmer
of obsidian crystals--
the agony of Africa
inside the unmaking
of America,
the transatlantic cemetery
where history grieves
for the crevices
in our soul,
in the echoes
of clanging chains,
of aching flesh
in the ship's tomb,
the lament
of blues poems
still believing
the rendering light
has meaning beyond
talk--
the touch of thought
as succulent
as a desert blossom

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Publication Information: Book Title: Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Contributors: Maria Diedrich - editor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. - editor, Carl Pedersen - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1999. Page Number: 305.
    
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