Let us also recognize
our own native
detachable snake-hips,
our rangy legs,
our educated feet.
Our arms and fingers
wave and snap
in a special way.
Our shoulders hang
as no other people’s
shoulders hang.
A quotation from the writings of Lincoln Kirstein from ‘Musical Myths of the American West’, by Stephen Brown, a review in the Times Literary Supplement, 9 November 2012. By Rishi Dastidar.
Verbatim Poetry 