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Nikki Giovanni ”The Butterfly- hat tip Kim Crosby.

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“those things
which yo so laughingly call
hands are in fact two
brown butterflies fluttering
across the pleasure
they give my body”

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— Nikki Giovanni ”The Butterfly

 

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January 18, 2014 by Frédéric.Arps.blogs
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged african-american poetry, black is beautiful, black lives matter, black poet, black poets FTW, black voices matter, cis-woman, kim katrin crosby, love poem, Nikki Giovanni, poem about desire, poem about the body, poem with metaphor, sex poem, The Butterfly Leave a reply
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