Sweet Enough Ocean, Cotton (from SLAVE MOTH)

Published: Sept. 23, 2006, 12:02 p.m.

b"Poem from SLAVE MOTH a narrative-in-verse by Thylias Moss. Explores the interaction of music and text, another aspect of self that Varl, the adolescent enslaved female narrator of SLAVE MOTH, would not have wanted to suppress, and didn't --though maybe only she heard herself singing."