shake loose my skin by sonia sanchez

I read shake loose my skin and remember feeling exhilarated. Here are a few quotes which have remained and will remain with me a long time hereafter.

"He was the sun that tagged 

the western sky and

melted tiger-scholars

while they searched for stripes''

"'If I had known, if

I had known you, I would have left my

love at home"

"And I cried

for myself

for all the women who have ever 

stretched their bodies out anticipating 

civilization and finding ruins"

"I have died and dreamed

myself back to your arms where what I

died for sleeps"

"Can I pull my bones

together while skeletons

come out of my head"

And my favourite which I chant daily into my bones and hope all women remember to do:

"I shall become a collector of me

I shall become a collector of me

I shall become a collector of me

I shall become a collector of me

I shall become a collector of me

and put meat on my soul"