Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Rounded, "Wholed" Humanness

Nefertiti




"How long shall we speak to them
Of the goldness of mother, of differences without bane
How long shall we say another world lives
Not spinned on the axis of maleness
But rounded and wholed, charting through
Its many runnels its justice distributive."

Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, 1982
"On Reading an Archeological Article on Nefertiti's Reign and Ancient Egyptian Society," in Sew the Old Days and other Poems, 1982

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