Poetry
Poetry as History
From Show Way
When Soonie’s great grandma was seven, she was sold
from the Virginia land to a plantation in South Carolina
without her ma
or pa
but with some muslin her ma had given her and two needles
she got from the Big House and thread
dyed bright red with berries from the chokecherry tree.
In South Carolina, Big Mama raised Soonie’s great grandma
Raised most the slave children on that large patch of land….
from the Virginia land to a plantation in South Carolina
without her ma
or pa
but with some muslin her ma had given her and two needles
she got from the Big House and thread
dyed bright red with berries from the chokecherry tree.
In South Carolina, Big Mama raised Soonie’s great grandma
Raised most the slave children on that large patch of land….
