Tuesday, 1 April 2014

James Baldwin: Amen

No, I don’t feel death coming.
I feel death going:
having thrown up his hands,
for the moment.

I feel like I know him
better than I did.
Those arms held me,
for a while,
and, when we meet again,
there will be that secret knowledge
between us.

A lost poem from Jimmy's Blues, published today.

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