A Fire in the Hills
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Afaa M. Weaver
Afaa Weaver’s many poetry collections include The Plum Flower Trilogy and Spirit Boxing, and he is the author of many plays, including Berea. Weaver currently resides in Pleasant Valley, New York.
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A Fire in the Hills - Afaa M. Weaver
A Fire in the Hills
Copyright © 2023 by Afaa M. Weaver
All Rights Reserved
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.
Book layout by Rebeccah Sanhueza
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951– author.
Title: A fire in the hills: poems / Afaa M. Weaver.
Description: First Edition. | Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, [2023]
Identifiers: LCCN 2022026558 (print) | LCCN 2022026559 (ebook) | ISBN 9781636280820 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781636281025 (paperback) | ISBN 9781636280837 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.
Classification: LCC PS3573.E1794 F57 2023 (print) | LCC PS3573.E1794 (ebook) | DDC 811/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022026558
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022026559
Publication of this book has been made possible in part through the generous financial support of Francesca Bell.
The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Meta & George Rosenberg Foundation, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Adams Family Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, the Sam Francis Foundation, and the Mara W. Breech Foundation partially support Red Hen Press.
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Acknowledgments
Poems in this collection have appeared in the following journals and anthologies.
5AM, Academy of American Poets, American Poetry Now, American Poetry Review, African American Review, Black Imagination, Chicory, Ibbetson Street, joINT, Jubilat, Somerville News, The Hopkins Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, and The Pushcart Anthology.
for
Loretta Miller
CONTENTS
Notes As Our Dead Seek Justice
I
In a Border Town
All American
My First Gun
Math Lesson
Shotgun
My History Homework, Mr. Jeff Fort
Blues in Five/Four, the Violence in Chicago
Game of Losing, 1968
The Sirens of Saigon
Requiem for the Coupe De Ville
A Poem for Freddie Gray, Baltimore
What a Fellowship
An Elegy for Lucille Clifton
II
What Is Left
The Great Foot
What Elizabeth Bishop Could Not Know
Proposition Joe, from the Grave
Charleston
Jobs or Not, the Hustle
When We Are Truck Drivers
The N Line to Brooklyn
Good Uncles
The Shaw Brothers
Richard Pryor Is Dead
All Ghosts Rise, Black Theater
Inosculation, an Ode to Walt Whitman
III
A South Carolina State of Nation Mind
Midnight Air in Louisville
This Civil War Yet Unresolved
When the Slavers Died at Sea
Back Spin of Hope
When I Think of Vietnam
Sacred
To Malcolm X On His Second Coming
Ephemera
God Is
Standing to America, bringing home
black gold, black ivory, black seed.
from "Middle Passage"
by Robert Hayden
NOTES AS OUR DEAD SEEK JUSTICE
Let another world be born …
—Margaret Walker
In the video, two pairs of eyes
two positions of power, all and none,
or all and then the none of losing it all
where soulless cops go when