Easter Mass

By Cheryl Clarke

A Mass is something you say on Good Friday,

after we walk the Stations for the last time.

The radiologist will

tell me the same thing or not:

“Appears to be a carcinoma.”

Appears?

Source: Poetry (July/August 2024)

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Poet, critic, and activist Cheryl Clarke was born in Washington, DC. She earned her BA from Howard University and her MA and PhD from Rutgers University. Clarke is the author of five collections of poetry: Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women (1983); Living as...

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