The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far
Akashic Books
“With nimble diction and unwavering honesty, The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us So Far is no mere poetic retelling of life, lineage, and layered history; these poems uproot then settle on their own authoritative terms.”
Parneshia Jones, from the prefacefrom “Salt”
You tell me I have to believe in something,
Precious Arinze
so I invent a version of the story
with no need for purity or obedience,
where God so loved the world
that he was perfectly content
to watch little Mary grow.