Artist: Augustus John b. January 4, 1878, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales; d. October 31, 1961, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England Title: Two Jamaican Girls Date: 1937 Click here for more information Mother, I keep praying the parts of you
out of me & yet you keep returning, always wearing a second hand dress always fraught and wayward always sunbathing in grief; refusing to love any one island or man. & you know how hard I’ve tried to not disappoint you but how I’ve innately become a wound on the flesh salted, & how you have carried me like a knife on the tongue twisting & how each time I tried to say goodbye it was your maternal glory that choked me & I couldn’t let go, just like you couldn’t bear to love the one who reminded you of yourself, & how each time you tried you recited prayers of your own: Dear Lord, you have buried a gun in my womb please don’t shoot "Daughter Hymn" has been published by America Magazine September, 2020
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