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Where Timid Gestures Black
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41 Where Timid Gestures Black (Eden’s “I” mmigrant) I unsettle speak & swift my pale tint argue what white is passport water-speckled spic they nation territory into tradition an aerie zone, a space they two-faced & abbreviated the eggs of our garden before God nested & layed beaks of an English- wish speaks within my Adam with such violence weeds sprung 42 from our palms love turned into the we refuse to bear I am a man as a woman within a question posed afterimage exposed through physical fact & psychic effort we weave such celluloid walls my wetback Eve & such love spic spacs my Adam a light inside where timid gestures black the aperture be- tween where we are most strangers we are our fear lodging the distance of intimacy from the lie solitude is language again ...