Mihret
2017; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 40; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/cal.2017.0093
ISSN1080-6512
Autores ResumoMihret Hiwot Adilow (bio) No offense to God, but every thing my mother prayed I wouldn't be, I became.Every place she prayed I wouldn't go, I went. I walked so long I found Mercy. I draped her thighs over my shoulders & drank. She's abundant& I'm finally alive. Had I been what I was supposed to be I'd be my mother'ssafehouse. I'd be her mother land. I wouldn't wander, I would remain.Were I from whence I ought to be from I'd call this something else butI belong to the country I was born in. Everything I've done has been in Love's name& in Love's name I've done these sins: I've clenched my fist. I've run.I've bit my tongue dead raw. Mihret covers my chest while I hum & swallow blood. She keeps me warm. Doesn't ask for me to stay. [End Page 100] Click for larger view View full resolution Participants at the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Oxford University, 2016 Photograph by Linda Smith © 2016 [End Page 101] Click for larger view View full resolution Participants at the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Oxford University, 2016 Photograph by Linda Smith © 2016 [End Page 102] Hiwot Adilow HIWOT ADILOW received her BA in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a member of the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community. She is a fellow of the 2016 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and recipient of the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Nepantla, Winter Tangerine, and The Offing, and has been anthologized in The BreakBeats Poets Vol 2.0: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books, 2018). She is author of the chapbook In the House of My Father (Two Sylvias Press, 2018). She is native of Philadelphia, PA. Copyright © 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press
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