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Audre Lorde

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For those of us who live at the shoreline …

Audre Lorde

Moon marked and touched by sun …

Audre Lorde

I …

Audre Lorde

I …

Audre Lorde

I have not ever seen my father’s grave. …

Audre Lorde

My mother had two faces and a frying pot …

Audre Lorde

I am fourteen …

Audre Lorde

I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neck …

Audre Lorde

Time collapses between the lips of strangers …

Audre Lorde

The difference between poetry and rhetoric …

Audre Lorde

Coming together …

Audre Lorde

The edge of our bed was a wide grid …

Audre Lorde

There are so many roots to the tree of anger …

Audre Lorde

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