"Poem for My Love"

30 August 2016: I taught a (different) June Jordan poem today in my Women's Studies class, but that poem lead me to this one: "Poem for My Love." I hadn't read this poem before--just read it for the first time tonight while doing some additional reading about Jordan. But it's quite lovely and today's good thing.

"Poem for My Love" 
June Jordan

How do we come to be here next to each other   

in the night 

Where are the stars that show us to our love   

inevitable 

Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness   

and the rain 

falls cool and blessed on the holy flesh   

the black men waiting on the corner for   

a womanly mirage 

I am amazed by peace 

It is this possibility of you 

asleep 

and breathing in the quiet air