Henry Simmons Instagram – The great August Wilson, my absolute favorite playwright. His writing has profoundly influenced me as an artist and as a man…..truly changed my life.
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“This is a poem I wrote for my grandfather. Since I never knew my grandfather, I am speaking in a generational sense, a generational grandfather. This is your grandfather, my grandfather, all of usā grandfather.ā
Poem For My Grandfather
His chest stripped open
to reveal a raven,
huge with sharp talons,
a song stuck in his throat
and beneath the feathers,
beneath the shudder and rage,
the pages of a book closed
and the raven took flight.
Bynum Cutler.
Savage, mule trainer, singer,
shaper of wood and iron.
Bynum Cutler,
who spread his seed
over the nine counties
in North Carolina,
seed carried in the wind,
by the wind in the sails of ships
and planted among the cane break,
among Georgia pine,
among boles of cotton
planted in the fertile fields of women
who snapped open like fresh berries,
like cities in full season
welcoming its architects
and ennobling them
with gifts of blood.
#supportblacktheatrela | Posted on 01/May/2021 04:26:40
