Caroling Dusk/Jungle Taste

by Edward S. Silvera

For other versions of this work, see Jungle Taste.

JUNGLE TASTE

There is a coarsenessIn the songs of black men Coarse as the songsOf the sea,There is a weird strangenessIn the songs of black menWhich sounds not strangeTo me.

There is beautyIn the faces of black women,Jungle beautyAnd mysteryDark hidden beautyIn the faces of black women,Which only black menSee.