Black Diamond Mind

in memory of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka

 

True Self Consciousness,

You are a democracy unto yourself.

(There is democracy in each of us.)

 

Sonya Sanchez said, “We could never

Imagine ourselves on this earth

Without dear brother Amiri”

 

(Subterranean night-colored magi,

working inside

the soul of the world)

 

& then she quoted these words––Verte y no Verte

(“To have seen you

and to see you no more”).

 

 

10 January 2014

 

 

[Published in The Groundless Ground: Poems 2010-2014.

© 2014 by Jim Cohn.]