and my hair grew the longing is gone from my body and Im filled with peace, perfect peace No longer shall I speak of electrocuted poets or the ones who inhaled gas until they danced in the dizziness of death but of brown women who turn the soil with their hands making vegetable gardens and tending fruit trees Today I went into my storehouse selected the choicest oil and anointed my body wrapped myself in the rarest cloth of a deep wine red stood at my front gate and words poured from my mouth in flaming chants Today the craftsman has come to make a design for me of a woman sitting in deep repose with doves flying from her head He has made all the pieces, and they fit well together I shall hang it at my window for all the world to see - See more at: http://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/centre#sthash.zyOQhCvv.dpuf