black madrina,
black madonna
your breast overflows
with sweet white milk flowers,
with white leaf and rain.
wet nurse, nursing -
your mask, my face
held in your lap
dark suckling woman
dripping love
on the pale lace of an infant's
christening gown.
black madonna
your breast overflows
with sweet white milk flowers,
with white leaf and rain.
wet nurse, nursing -
your mask, my face
held in your lap
dark suckling woman
dripping love
on the pale lace of an infant's
christening gown.
hortensia anderson
