Josh Simmons quoted Black nature by Camille T. Dungy
The Spider Speaks by Shara McCallum
No choice but to spin, the life given.
Mother warned me I would wake one dawn
to a sun no longer yellow, to an expanse of blue,
no proper word to name it. Weaving
the patterned threads of my life, each day
another web and the next. If instead I could carve
my message in stone, would it mean more?
I have only this form to give. When the last
silvery strand leaves my belly, I will see
what colour the sun has become.
— Black nature by Camille T. Dungy (Page 228)
