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Callaloo 23.4 (2000) 1181



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B Jenkins

Fred Moten


dairy lingers through information
then panther creek. from pine
tree to round green. the green is
round 'causa work and wish then
slope down to that trinkle tinkle
accidental bridge. at the end of a
chute of softwood round green
curve down to the edge of some
soft, hidden water. the patches indicate
labor, the cows stay put. their backs
are the bottom of a curved frame. st. james
flattens out to miz b.c.'s little
rise and on to rison and pine bluff.
this is the beginning and end of my
trumpeter's round trip, green round
as her smile and sound. mama, check
out this new



Fred Moten teaches in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He has published several essays on black music, literature, and politics, and a chapbook of poems called Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000).

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