Erysichthon’s Seed
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Erysichthon’s Seed

A2ElementaryNovember 9, 20265 min

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sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies, pregnant with stolen milk to restless hands.

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Hunger like her mama, most strong in white gaze as in a cowbird's flirtation, sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies, pregnant with stolen milk to restless hands. These fingernails filled with black body, scrapin' to get back to forgotten. Here, the gods of this new world demanded,

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Erycython's Seed. Before brown bodies dealt in brown bodies, before the Portuguese, before Europe knew little about black, how it lingers on the tongue. Erysycthon pulled hunger out of his bowels, figuring,

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if I can't soothe her, I'll marry her. We can eat the world together. Eyes taste beginning, make new words. Hands taste bodies, make new narrative. Black bodies, a synonym for empire.

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