Always rebellious: selected poems = Cimarroneando: poemas escogidos

Always rebellious: selected poems = Cimarroneando: poemas escogidos

While in the womb

of my mother, every

now and then, in the midst

of the _wemilere_ splendor,

the old Oweni spoke

through the thick thump thump of the drum.

His hoarse voice was heard

filled with many longings;

claiming,

urging his return. Desolated,

the fields had become, the grass.

How desperate the hunger of the wild beasts!





Books by Georgina Herrera in Black Latin American Writers in Translation

Always rebellious: selected poems = Cimarroneando: poemas escogidos
Georgina Herrera