KNOWING HOW TO LOOK
February 22, 2024
Wasn’t nobody on that prairiethat looked like me— and yet—coneflower or Black Samson,that new bluestem they call prairie blues.Say, that new, new grass they call the prairie blues. Micheaux’s camera-eye and how it readthat black dirt: He was young, The Homesteader,—just passed twenty-two—and vigorous,strong, healthy and courageous. Brooklyn, Brushy Fork, Buxton,Lyles Station, Pinhook, DeWitty,always a...