Jump to content

Fire!!/Flame from the Dark Tower/Jungle Taste

From Wikisource
3888099Fire!! — Jungle TasteWallace Henry ThurmanEdward Silvera

Jungle Taste

There is a coarseness
In the songs of black men
Coarse as the songs
Of the sea.
There is a weird strangeness
In the songs of black men
Which sounds not strange
To me.

There is beauty
In the faces of black women,
Jungle beauty
And mystery.
Dark, hidden beauty
In the faces of black women
Which only black men
See.