A Poem For My Father
- A Poem for My Father
Cave Canem: A Special Section
how sad it must be to love so many women to need so many black perfumed bodies weeping underneath you. when i remember all those nights i filled my mind with long wars between short sighted trojans & greeks while you slapped some wide hips about in your pvt dungeon, when i remember your deformity i want to do something about your makeshift manhood. i guess that is why on meeting your sixth wife, i cross myself with her confessionals.
Sonia Sanchez is the Laura Carnell Professor of English at Temple University, where she serves as Director of Women’s Studies. She has published 13 books of poetry, the most recent being Does Your House Have Lions?, Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums, and Shake Loose My Skin. She has won several awards for her poetry, including the Lucretia Mott Award, a Pew Fellowship, and the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities (Pennsylvania). Does Your House Have Lions? was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998.
