a haven
i sit on your porch
drink wine on your lawnchairs
recall a lifetime of conversation
conducted over ebony catalogues
and letters from new york sisterfriends
this is your house
you said
come home anytime
the radio plays
in your windchimes
i mouth your name
cling to steveland’s melody
and watch a white butterfly
light on your chair
Copyright © Jacqueline Jones LaMon. All rights reserved. Used with permission of the author.
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, UCLA School of Law, and Indiana University Bloomington, where she received her MFA in
Poetry. A graduate fellow of Cave Canem, her first poetry collection, Gravity, U.S.A., received the 2005 Quercus Review Press Poetry Series Book Award. Her first novel, In the Arms of One Who Loves Me, was published by One
World/Ballantine Books in 2002. She is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and pedagogy.
Copyright © 1997-2008 by Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
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