from “On a New Year’s Eve” by June Jordan

from Jordan’s Things I Do in the Dark, 1977 [...] and even the stars and even the snow and even the rain do not amount to much unless these things submit to some disturbance some derangement such as when I yield myself/belonging to your unmistaken body

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you can’t take a political meeting to bed

from A Couple of Questions by June Jordan I have someplace to go and candles to light and I live 3,500 miles and 3 time zones away from the only lover in the world who can keep me awake when I’m actually fast asleep And all of this hatred sorely aggravates my soul all of [...]

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Winter Honey

Winter Honey June Jordan Sugar come and sugar go Sugar dumb but sugar know ain’ nothin’ run me for my money nothin’ sweet like winter honey Sugar high and sugarlow Sugar pie and sugar dough Then sugar throw a sugar fit And sugar find a sugar tit But never mind what sugar find ain’ nothin’ [...]

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or Different Ways of Tingling All Over

Verse after Listening to Bartok Play Bartok a Second Time, or Different Ways of Tingling All Over June Jordan now and then unexpectedly unexpectedly unexpectedly

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