from The Tituba Letters: The Witch Poppet

Poetry from AGNI 63 by Donia Elizabeth Allen

You makke mee
With soot & stolen

Peaces of silke.
You are noe fool—

You wish
For some thing

Oulder than angel.
I am noe green

Witch, I know sweat
& strong water,

How to leave
Frayd edges

Under the bellys
Of strangers.

Published: Apr 15 2006

Donia Elizabeth Allen

Donia Elizabeth Allen’s work has appeared in jubilat, Fierce Magazine, Callalo: A Journal of African and African-American Arts and Letters, Honey Magazine, Lexus Magazine, The Madison Review, Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, and Odessy Couleur Magazine. She lives in Harlem.