“When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water”Gwendolyn Brooks
“The first night, a rock, big as two fists.The second, a rock big as three.But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed.(Though oaken as man could be.)The third night, a silvery ring of glass.Patience arched to endure,But he looked, and lo! small Mabel's bloodWas staining her gaze so pure.”Gwendolyn Brooks The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
“Rudolph Reed was oaken.His wife was oaken too.And his two good girls and his good little manOakened as they grew.”Gwendolyn Brooks The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
“The good man.He is still enhancer, renouncer.In the time of detachment,in the time of the vivid heather and affectionate evil,in the time of oralgrave grave legalities of hate - all realwalks our prime registered reproach and seal.Our successful moral.The good man.”Gwendolyn Brooks The Good Man
“CoherentCounsel! Good man.Require of us our terribly excluded blue.Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land.Put hand in hand land over.Reprovethe abler droughts and manias of the dayand a felicity entreat.Love.Completeyour pledges, reinforce your aides, renewstance, testament.”Gwendolyn Brooks The Good Man