Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman
BY SONIA SANCHEZ
(excerpt)
1
Picture a woman
riding thunder on
the legs of slavery ...
2
Picture her kissing
our spines saying no to
the eyes of slavery ...
3
Picture her rotating
the earth into a shape
of lives becoming ...
4
Picture her leaning
into the eyes of our
birth clouds ...
5
Picture this woman
saying