[Begin Again]

exists Africa                america exits
a musket                      the moment
                                    a whip is erect

                                    or when blood enters water
to become wine (or america)

when a hand meets flesh         for peace

a congo drum              a fear-blown conch
conundrum
                                    from the atlantic
                                    deep specifically
                                    black currents diverging
                                    pre-black currency
post-underground   perpendicular
to masonry-diction lines and
diagonal to triangle trades      begin
                                                at midnight
                                                north star / headlining
just begin (
in/correct--adjust—discovery of my own self
                                                 and circumference
begin an indigenous now
un-caucused / un-talked at—othered)
                                                a just beginning
                                                being
un-columbused           un-compassed
live back/words proudly

forward-think often means erasure
begin again at the end              history

how will I?                             my everyday begins black
                                                                                      start back black then
                                                                                                   then begin