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Callaloo 23.4 (2000) 1193



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Are You Langston Hughes?

Myronn Hardy


she asks as I walk into the
Colina Hotel. What? The Havana
heat boiling her eyes bringing back
a dead man perhaps the only
man she'd loved.
Does she notice the unfinished poems
fading on my cheek or did she see me
leaving the deck of El Moro.
Did she accompany José Antonio on his
fishing trip with Hemingway and discuss me?
What did they say?
Was she at my rumba party watching me
dance with pretty girls while she filled her mouth
with boiled bananas shrimp rice?
Did Nicolás Guillén show her
my translated poems in a local newspaper?
Doesn't she know that I don't look like
Langston? I'm from Michigan not
Missouri. I'm here to hold a
country in my hands then let it go.



Myronn Hardy is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University. His forthcoming book of poetry entitled Approaching The Center will be published in March 2001 by New Issues Press.

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