We Have a Beautiful Mother by 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.

~ Her Blue Body Everything We Know (Harcourt Brace & Company, 1991)