<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553609" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From the House of Yemanjá</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mother had two faces and a frying pot <br>where she cooked up her daughters<br>into girls<br>before she fixed our dinner.<br>My mother had two faces<br>and a broken pot<br>where she hid out a perfect daughter <br>who was not me<br>I am the sun and moon and forever hungry <br>for her eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I bear two women upon my back <br>one dark and rich and hidden<br>in the ivory hungers of the other <br>mother<br>pale as a witch<br>yet steady and familiar<br>brings me bread and terror<br>in my sleep<br>her breasts are huge exciting anchors <br>in the midnight storm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All this has been<br>before<br>in my mother's bed<br>time has no sense<br>I have no brothers<br>and my sisters are cruel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mother I need<br>mother I need<br>mother I need your blackness now <br>as the august earth needs rain. <br>I am</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sun and moon and forever hungry <br>the sharpened edge<br>where day and night shall meet<br>and not be<br>one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Audre+Lorde">Audre Lorde</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=553609" data-title="From the House of Yemanjá de Audre Lorde" data-description="My mother had two faces and a frying pot where she cooked up her daughters into girls before she fixed our dinner. My mother had two faces and a broken pot where she hid out a perfect daughter who was not me I am the sun and moon and forever hun..."></div> </div> </div>

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