<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=488447" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>GRIOTTE by Marjorie Evasco</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the story I remember Sandie Mbanefo remembers<br>her Igbo father telling her the old village storyteller<br>sat in the moonlight middle of a circle of ears and drums<br>beating the story in to let each one remember<br>stories from the very beginning simple complete<br>the way to throw nets onto the center of the lake<br>the way to cast spells to tame spit of the black mamba<br>in the countless spirals of words seeking the listening<br>whole navel dark pit memory called Mother in any tongue<br>in any story remembered and passed on in time<br>from time to time resurfacing in another other parts<br>of the world woven with skein like hers like mine like<br>Lina Sagaral Reyes bathing in the moonlight because<br>Bohol Electric cut off her supply her power to tell<br>the moonlight to me undiminished under the candleglow<br>as she remembered how rain water splashed<br>a shiver of fireflies on her brown body washed off salt<br>and silt from her twilight search for mollusks at Loay Beach<br>with the village women who also tell stories<br>what they remember everyday where crabs dance mate spawn<br>at new moon tide extraordinary things glowing<br>in the mangrove swamps while my feet tread their way<br>back to the night Sandie showed me Nigeria<br>the ceremonial clay figures in the round of storytelling<br>pulling me into the silent stretch of words as time curves<br>the gesture of fishers’ nets on to another lake where<br>I sit listen with Mabel Alampay to the blind<br>storyteller of Talisay remembering Taal Volcano<br>spewing lightning bolts the memory burned onto thin membrane<br>of eyelids shut forever into seeing inward a story of awe<br>passed on passing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=488447" data-title="GRIOTTE by Marjorie Evasco de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="the story I remember Sandie Mbanefo remembers her Igbo father telling her the old village storyteller sat in the moonlight middle of a circle of ears and drums beating the story in to let each one remember stories from the very beginning simple co..."></div> </div> </div>

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