Today's post is a poem from Sonia Sanchez, which will be included in her forthcoming collection, Morning Haiku. Sanchez-- a poet, activist, and scholar-- is one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, and was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. 

haiku
(for Maya Angelou)

1.

You have

taught us how

to pray

2.

your poems

yellow tattoos on the

morning dew

3.

we dance

in the eye

of your pores

4.

in a sudden

pause of breath

secrets unlock

5.

you show us

how to arrange our

worldly selves

6.

your poems

a landscape of

seabirds.