Depth Charge: a collaboration

by Thylias Moss

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This piece is part of our Fall/Winter 2020 print issue.

Thylias Moss

THYLIAS MOSS, age 66, has published widely, a multiracial maker of things of language including poems, these days love poems. Recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Genius grant, two nominations for the National Book Critics Circle award, Professor Emerita of English and Professor Emerita of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. She is in a meld with a wonderful man, Mr. Bob Holman, poems as well as life.

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O, I don’t care what you are,
I don’t ask about your ways,
nor where you’ve gone, where you’ve been,
whether you’ve killed, or you’ve sinned.

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Armed with a cutlass, gift from my uncle, a displaced cane cutter in Belle Glade, before La Migra swooped down one Friday evening, like Shangó’s vengeance on adulterers and deported him to Jamaica before we could hire a lawyer, I opened the gate to my garden and began the yearly ritual at the end of

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