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Gone but Not Forgotten

Maud Sulter

On leaving
you playfully punched
my left
shoulder.

The sensation
remains

But your
voice fades

The sensation
remains
But your
image fades

I
short of breath
tremble

I think
you’ve
cracked
a
rib.


Maud Sulter

Reproduced with the permission of The Estate of Maud Sulter, © 2017.

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Maud Sulter1960 - 2008

Born in Glasgow of Scots and Ghanaian descent, Maud Sulter was a visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. ‘As a Blackwoman’, the title of her first volume of poems, remained the perspective for her explorations across genres.
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