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Corn-Bread

exiting backwards

her father's warming

an armor

against the jealous wagging

tongues of the frustrated women

but she would not lay

beneath any man

or allow his insecurity

to determine the path

her feet would take

a smile can beguile

the most ruthless adversaries

and she's familiar with

the secret of the caterpillar

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Opal Palmer Adisa, Jamaica-born, has ...

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