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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Roger Bonair-Agard Roger Bonair-Agard’s work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. He is the author of Tarnish and Masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006) and is a Cave Canem fellow. As the co-founder of the louderARTS Project, he launched and cocurates the louderARTS reading series at Bar 13 in New York City. A veteran of the national poetry slam scene, he is a two-time National Slam Champion and has appeared on HBO’s Poetry Def Jam, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour and 60 Minutes. After its recent successful debut in Manhattan, Bonair-Agard’s one-man show “Masquerade” will tour nationally. A native of Trinidad, he lives in Brooklyn.

what the water gave me (after Frida Kahlo) Roger Bonair-Agard

The water gave me madness incessant humming blood the water remembers the torn torso melting through a seashell's portholes the quadrangular tight-rope of death disease   slaughtered women the trade in gold and spirit of five hundred nations drifting the water remembers   the water is clarity the water remembers   offers back hurricane the water remembers   hides its secrets no wonder water remembers in tectonic shifts and the angry expectorant of lava no wonder water runs muddy   revolts to flood and brackish no wonder water stays still in the dark the water is coming back home

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