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Whipped
September 15, 2011
Crimson red
A scornful hue
Imprints skin
Black and Blue
Bathe in warmth and be reborn
Shampoo like liquid magma seep
Within flesh torn
Gnawing spasms induces sleep
Medicate bloody, ripped skin
With ointment...cool
Skinned by the hands of kin
Welts be a reminder of a broken
rule
© Chris G., Kannapolis, NC
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Dana, a young black writer in 1973, finds herself inexplicably transported to 1820s Maryland just in time save the life of a drowning white boy. This boy Rufus is the son of a cruel plantation owner, and her long-forgotten ancestor. And try as she might to prevent him from growing into a copy of his father or distance herself from his world, they are incontrovertibly linked and she keeps getting pulled back to his antebellum South world.