we have a beautiful mother - alice walker -

We have a beautiful mother

Her hills are

buffaloes

Her buffaloes 

hills.

We have a beautiful mother,

Her oceans are 

wombs,

Her wombs 

oceans.

We have a beautiful mother,

Her teeth

the white stones

at the edge 

of the water

the summer 

grasses

her plentiful 

hair.

We have a beautiful mother

Her green lap

immense

Her brown embrace 

eternal 

Her blue body

everything

we know.