Luv That Kitchen!
- Luv That Kitchen!
Marjorie Stewart Joyner (1896–1994)Beautician, businesswoman
She was tiredof straightening black hair,one slow stove-heated curling ironat a time.Still at nightlike any womanshe cookedpot roast—poked manylong thin rodsinto the meatto keep its shape
thoughtwhy not hair?
Two yearstoiling, tuggingconnectingelectrifying. . . [End Page 161] now you,any woman,sit under a hoodmany rollers in hairthank an impatientblack woman,the firstto receive a patent. [End Page 162]
Lavinia Kumar
Lavinia Kumar's poetry books are The Celtic Fisherman's Wife: A Druid Life (2017) and The Skin and Under (2015). Her two chapbooks are Let There Be Color (2016) and Rivers of Saris (2013). Her poetry has appeared in US and UK publications. Her website is laviniakumar.org.
