Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUNT JANE ALLEN, by FENTON JOHNSON Poet's Biography First Line: State street is lonely today. Aunt jane allen has driven Last Line: To each of the seed of ethiopia? Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks | ||||||||
State Street is lonely today. Aunt Jane Allen has driven her chariot to Heaven. I remember how she hobbled along, a little woman, parched of skin, brown as the leather of a satchel and with eyes that had scanned eighty years of life. Have those who bore her dust to the last resting place buried with her the basket of aprons she went up and down State Street trying to sell? Have those who bore her dust to the last resting place buried with her the gentle worn Son that she gave to each of the seed of Ethiopia? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY AUNT ELLA MAE by MICHAEL S. HARPER DERRICK POEM (THE LOST WORLD) by TERRANCE HAYES ODE TO BIG TREND by TERRANCE HAYES WOOFER (WHEN I CONSIDER THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN) by TERRANCE HAYES CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL |
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