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May 02, 2023
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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 

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