P4P’s spring 1994 anthology, Poetry in a Season of Love, is repurposed as a poster, featuring layered poems revolving around the theme of love — a core principle of Black feminism.
(Front cover) poetry for the people presents poetry in a Season of Love
(Spine) Poetry for the People Presents Poetry in a Season of Love Spring ‘94
(Back cover)
Vision of Your Body
In the dimly lit room
I had a brief glimpse of bliss:
sight of your naked body
like a god reclining.
That was all.
Quite unaware
you got up to get your clothes
just naturally
while I shuddered
like the earth split open by lightning.
—Daisy Zamora
Eros
there is
no key
to your
door
only
a tongue
for your
keyhole
—Francisco X. Alarcón
Mija
mija’s face
framed
four by five
illuminates
the four corners
of my shadowed
room
—Roberto Tinoco Durán
AMOR ZURDO
they can
throw me
in jail
point
laugh
at my face
run me
out
of town
stone me
to
death
write me
off
any record
but can’t
keep me
from
touching
rubbing
loving you
—Francisco X. Alarcón
Peaches—Six in a Bowl, Sarajevo
If peaches had arms
surely they would hold one another
in their peach sleep.
And if peaches had feet
it is sure they would nudge one another
with their soft peachy feet.
And if peaches could
they would sleep
with their dimpled head
on the other’s
each to each.
Like you and me.
and sleep and sleep.
—Sandra Cisneros
Poetry in a Season of Love, Poetry for the People program records, 1991-2010, CES ARC 2018/1, Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley.
