Bright Red Before Birth Poem by Kimberly Burnham
Bright Red Before Birth
In Kassem a language of West Africa's Burkina Faso
"cwɛn cwɛn" describes intensively red
"kʋ yɩ nasʋŋʋ cwɛn cwɛn" it's bright red
"na-cwɛn is a heifer
red
and one "cwɛn" alone is a woman
who has not yet given birth
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: color,colors,feminism,red
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
a woman's dictionary poem from the Color and Healing Poetry Challenge
words from sil-burkina.org
words from sil-burkina.org
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