By Claudine Michel
For Kyrah
It is
hard
to be
very scared
and
be
very little
in
the
rubble
and
wait
for the
morning
that
never
comes
Claudine Michel is Professor Emerita, Department of Black Studies, University of California. She is editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies and Executive Director of the Haitian Studies Association. Her poems appear in Le Temps qui Passe (Marlène Racine-Toussaint, editor), Pawol Fanm sou Douz Janvye (Gina Athena Ulysse, guest editor), a special issue of Meridians. Feminism. Race. Transnationalism, and elsewhere. Also by this poet: "Delira"