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AT APRIL by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: TOSS YOUR GAY HEADS
Last Line: AT OUR HEARTS?
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS - WOMEN; GAYS & LESBIANS; HOMOEROTICISM; LESBIANS; GAY WOMEN; GAY MEN;

Toss your gay heads,
Brown girl trees;
Toss your gay lovely heads;
Shake your downy russet curls
All about your brown faces;
Stretch your brown slim bodies;
Stretch your brown slim arms;
Stretch your brown slim toes.
Who knows better than we,
With the dark, dark bodies,
What it means
When April comes alaughing and aweeping
Once again
At our hearts?




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