Open AccessGarden
Author(s) -
Gelissa Leveille
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
in:cite journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-265X
DOI - 10.33137/incite.1.28871
Subject(s) - sustenance , feeling , poetry , narrative , literature , aesthetics , art , sociology , psychology , political science , social psychology , law
“Garden” is a poem centered on the concept of the black body as a source of sustenance for others, where the fruits of the body’s labors are given to those who bene t from its work. This poem compares the extraction of labor from these bodies to the reaping of owers and food from stolen earth. Nations were created by these individuals whose stories have become packaged as one narrative. Without access to these stories, they are being lost to the winds of time. This poem speaks of the feelings of those who were or are oppressed, feelings that many young people may experience, yet be unable to express.