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Eunice de Souza

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Reprieve

This poem is for you.
It’s a reprieve.
It says
nothing in your little black heart
can frighten me,
I’ve looked too long
into my own.
Thank you for the gift
of your uncertainties.

Eunice de Souza

(India, 1940)

Eunice de Souza is an English-language poet. She has published four volumes of poetry, two novellas and edited several anthologies of poems and essays. Her most recent publication – A Necklace of Skulls, a volume of collected poems – was published by Penguin India in 2009. Her work has been translated into Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and Swedish.

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Reprieve

This poem is for you.
It’s a reprieve.
It says
nothing in your little black heart
can frighten me,
I’ve looked too long
into my own.
Thank you for the gift
of your uncertainties.

From: Women in Dutch Painting