Sarah Webster Fabio - Glimpses

 

1972 Boss Soul: 12 Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio Cyril Leslie Fabio - Congo Wayne Wallace - Guitar Michael Holland and Ronald Fabio - Bass Cover photo by Cheryl Fabio Glimpses of an Image Glimpses of an image of ourselves, now from glints of our past to wear like a mask of our black nature for all to know us by a garmet pose smile a grimace stance style tatoos on oaken souls carvings on mahogany hearts Thinly veiled see the she-child clasping hands nimbly leap into ritual dance ushering in the green Spring so young fresh firmly planted those patterning feet on the drunlning earth enrobed see Hannibal Othello and shades like ivy along the walls of Timbuktu regally sunning in embellished courtyards of Cairo and Addi s Ababa And behind them the splendor of the Pyramids EnJewelled splendidly and perfumed see Aida Cleopatra and Sheba See in moonlit glimmer those middle passages bruised with pain on slave ships, in dungeons smouldering in torrid tombs of Western industrial nightmares buried in the cotton coffins of the South Glimpses of a memorable past fragments of the dimmed soul of a people of destiny to fix as an ímage to mirror us in our Negritude our collective Afro based consciousness Nobly irrevocably we emerge to become who we are and we are black beautiful precious proud