Monday, January 20, 2003
American Sonnet (10) Comments
Rating: ★2.9
after Lowell
our mothers wrung hell and hardtack from row
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12/7/2025 3:09:08 AM # 1.0.0
Ably written, but the matter is troubling. It invokes the conventional slavery guilt-trip but I wonder. Isn't this mock tragic as long as you are perfectly free to return to Africa? That is, now that the world's arteries ready do flow, immigration is still steadily in the same direction? Something is missing in the old paradigm.