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Root Work Journal - Convening in the Ark - Volume 1, Issue 1
Have you heard?
Paige DeLoach
insta: @p.aiged
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.47106/4rwj.11107302
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A poem about my great grandmother, Marie. Marie, half Black, half Narragansett, married Frank, member of the local NAACP chapter, and built a legacy of Black empowerment in a small Connecticut town.
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Have you heard
of the woman
who made you?
who sings
in joy
in faith
in love
who enters the world
to make something
from nothing
have you heard
the prayer
of the woman
whispering
today i will live
today i will do what i must
have you heard
of the woman
who saved herself
have you heard
of the woman
who saved you?
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