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Sonia Sanchez: Morning haiku (2010, Beacon Press) No rating

This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, …

9 haiku for Freedom's Sisters by Sonia Sanchez

  1. (Kathleen Cleaver) quicksilver panther woman speaking in thunder

  2. (Charlayne Hunter-Gault) summer silk woman brushing the cobwebs off Southern legs

  3. (Shirley Chisholm) We saw your woman sound footprinting congressional hallways

  4. (Betty Shabazz) your quiet face arrived a road unafraid of ashes...

  5. (Fannie Lou Hamer) feet deep in cotton you shifted the country's eyes

  6. (Barbara Jordan) Texas star carrying delicate words around your waist

  7. (Rosa Parks) baptizer of morning light walking us away from reserved spaces

  8. (Myrlie Evers-Williams) you rescued women and men from southern subscriptions of death

  9. (Dr. Dorothy Irene Height) I your words helped us reconnoiter the wonder of women

II woman sequestered in the hurricane of herstory...

— Morning haiku by  (Page 71)

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Whoops. Each haiku is numbered and that seems to have lead this to be formatted as an ordered list. That's not quite true to how it's rendered on the page, but it's not quite wrong either. I'll leave it as-is and keep that in mind the next time I post one of Sonia Sanchez's series of numbered haikus!