DUCKLING UGLY
By Darlene Roy
Future banana skirt coquett’ with a hundred
faces, rolled saucer eyes, flapped slender arms
and thighs to lure globe-round ticket
holders. Baker’s belly laughs spilled in waves,
during zany, slap stick antics. Masking a
future siren, she just "Shuffled Along" from
tank town stops to La Revue Nègre.
For St. Louis, Missouri born Freda Josephine McDonald (1906-1975), who became Josephine Baker, a renowned singer, dancer and expatriate to France.
BEHIND THE VENEER
Awful and awe-some phrases deftly decode
our lives’ links or limits through the
cryptic pen of this noted time shifter,
spirits diviner and memory bender. When the
once dead thrives, as a specter or
name -- and magic veils reality, then pushes
us beyond belief – we enter Toni’s tome.
For Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison, who transitioned on April 5, 2019.
By Darlene Roy
Future banana skirt coquett’ with a hundred
faces, rolled saucer eyes, flapped slender arms
and thighs to lure globe-round ticket
holders. Baker’s belly laughs spilled in waves,
during zany, slap stick antics. Masking a
future siren, she just "Shuffled Along" from
tank town stops to La Revue Nègre.
For St. Louis, Missouri born Freda Josephine McDonald (1906-1975), who became Josephine Baker, a renowned singer, dancer and expatriate to France.
BEHIND THE VENEER
Awful and awe-some phrases deftly decode
our lives’ links or limits through the
cryptic pen of this noted time shifter,
spirits diviner and memory bender. When the
once dead thrives, as a specter or
name -- and magic veils reality, then pushes
us beyond belief – we enter Toni’s tome.
For Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison, who transitioned on April 5, 2019.
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