drawings by the Maya Boyd
photography by Clyde Stringer
poetry
ISBN 0-9622474-9-9
72pp;   2002
12.00
  a mind
a mind nestles
with a dove
in a tropical region.
warmth surges,
ripe and deeply red.
words of
warning emerge.
 

wings wide
she is wounded
inside camouflage,
deception hidden
beneath.
an open,
dark
reason.

"Melba Joyce Boyd has drunk deep of the Waters of Remembrance. These poems are grounded in her fierce humanity: they are songs of history and dreams of revolution. They invite us to read, learn, and set to work."
                           -- Diane di Prima     

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