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Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman BY SONIA SANCHEZ

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1 Picture a woman riding thunder on the legs of slavery    …   
  2 Picture her kissing our spines saying no to the eyes of slavery    …     3 Picture her rotating the earth into a
shape of lives becoming    …     4 Picture her leaning into the eyes of our birth clouds    …     5 Picture this woman
saying no to the constant yes of slavery    …     6 Picture a woman jumping rivers her legs inhaling moons    …     7
Picture her ripe with seasons of legs    …   running    …     8 Picture her tasting the secret corners of woods    …    9
Picture her saying: You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to
change the world    …     10 Imagine her words: Every great dream begins with a dreamer    …     11 Imagine her
saying: I freed a thousand slaves, could have freed a thousand more if they only knew they were slaves    …    
12 Imagine her humming: How many days we got fore we taste freedom    …     13 Imagine a woman asking:
How many workers for this freedom quilt    …     14 Picture her saying: A live runaway could do great harm by
going back but a dead runaway could tell no secrets    …     15 Picture the daylight bringing her to woods full of
birth moons    …     16 Picture John Brown shaking her hands three times saying: General Tubman. General
Tubman. General Tubman. 17 Picture her words: There’s two things I got a right to: death or liberty    …     18
Picture her saying no to a play called Uncle Tom’s Cabin: I am the real thing    …     19 Picture a Black woman:
could not read or write trailing freedom refrains    …     20 Picture her face turning southward walking down a
Southern road    …     21 Picture this woman freedom bound    …    tasting a people’s preserved breath    …     22
Picture this woman of royalty    …    wearing a crown of morning air    …     23 Picture her walking, running, reviving
a country’s breath    …     24 Picture black voices leaving behind lost tongues   … Source: Poetry (April 2018)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/146231/haiku-and-tanka-for-harriet-tubman
From the readings this week, pick a poem to analyze. What is the primary meaning? Quote text from the
poem to serve as evidence of the meaning you find. Two Paragraph Answer.

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