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June Jordan

June Jordan was born in Harlem, New York in 1936 and raised in Brooklyn. Her mother was from Jamaica, and worked as a nurse, and her father immigrated from Panama, and was a postal worker. After attending both

Poem for My Love

by June Jordan (1936–2002)

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How do we come to be here next to each other
in the night
Where are the stars that show us to our love
inevitable
Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness
and the rain
falls cool and blessed on the holy flesh
the black men waiting on the corner for
a womanly mirage

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What American poet, born in St. Louis, Missouri, became a British citizen and described himself as a "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-catholic in religion"?

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T.S. Eliot

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