Danielle Mckinney, Mercy (detail), featured in AGNI 103
from The Tituba Letters: The Witch Poppet
You makke mee
With soot & stolen
Peaces of silke.
You are noe fool—
You wish
For some thing
Oulder than angel.
I am noe green
Witch, I know sweat
& strong water,
How to leave
Frayd edges
Under the bellys
Of strangers.
Published:
Donia Elizabeth Allen
Donia Elizabeth Allen’s work has appeared in jubilat, Fierce Magazine, Callalo: A Journal of African and African-American Arts and Letters, Honey Magazine, Lexus Magazine, The Madison Review, Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, and Odessy Couleur Magazine. She lives in Harlem.
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