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BEDSPREAD Author(s): LORNA GOODISON Source: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3/4 (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER, 1984), pp. 128-129 Published by: University of the West Indies and Caribbean Quarterly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40653560 . Accessed: 15/06/2014 07:52 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . University of the West Indies and Caribbean Quarterly are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Caribbean Quarterly. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 188.72.127.68 on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 07:52:41 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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BEDSPREADAuthor(s): LORNA GOODISONSource: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3/4 (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER, 1984), pp. 128-129Published by: University of the West Indies and Caribbean QuarterlyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40653560 .
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BEDSPREAD
Sometimes in the still unchanging afternoons when the memories crowded hot and hopeless against her brow she would seek its cool colours and signal him to lie down in his cell.
It is three in the afternoon Nelson let us rest here together upon this bank draped in freedom colour.
It was woven by women with slender capable hands accustomed to binding wounds hands that closed the eyes of dead children, that fought for the right to speak in their own tongues in their own land in their own schools.
They wove the bedspread and knotted notes of hope in each strand and selvedged the edges with ancient blessings older than any white man's coming.
So in the'afternoons lying on this bright bank of blessing Nelson my husband I meet you in dreams my beloved much of the world too is asleep blind to the tyranny and evil devouring our people.
But, Mandela, you are rock on this sand harder than any metal mined in the bowels of this land you are purer than any gold tempered by fire shall we lie here wrapped in the colours of our free Azania?
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They arrested the bedspread. They and their friends are working to arrest the dreams in our heads and the women, accustomed to closing the eyes of the dead are weaving cloths still brighter to drape us in glory in a Free Azania.
LORNA GOODISON
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