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  • Stone Skin
  • Gabeba Baderoon (bio)

In the castle the statues stiffenwith perfection. Outside the stone wallsthe Senegalese immigrants hold out their handsfull of roses and good fortune.

The boy lays his small foot on marble,light and eternal. The Madonna holds his headon her lap. Outside, the gestures of the handsare not aesthetic, are not silent.

At night, the stone wall keeps in its placeand outside, the silence, the growing silence. [End Page 250]


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Paulo Nazareth, Untitled (2011/2012). Photo printing on cotton paper, 18 × 24 cm., Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM Gallery

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Gabeba Baderoon

Gabeba Baderoon is the author of The Dream in the Next Body, A Hundred Silences, and The History of Intimacy. She is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and co-directs the African Feminist Initiative at Pennsylvania State University, where she is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies.

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