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Boy Lifts Board And Finds Scorpion
- Yusef Komunyakaa describes lifting a board as a boy and finding a crimson scorpion and other insects beneath it.
- That childhood discovery frames the poem's curiosity and tactile encounter with beauty that can bite.
Voice Shifts From Child To Reflective Adult
- The poem shifts voice from an observing child to an adult reflecting on how light interrupts hidden life.
- That change exposes the poem's deeper question about light as metaphor and who gets to claim moral superiority.
Disturbed By A Hymn's Language
- Chris Heagle recounts being at a religious meeting where a hymn sang 'Jesus make me whiter' and felt disturbed.
- That experience propelled his scrutiny of light/white metaphors and their racial implications.