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DeLana Dameron

DeLana Dameron, a native of Columbia, SC spends her days in Chapel Hill, North Carolina translating the world around her—forever trying to marry the historical and the literary. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a member of the Carolina African American Writer's Collective. She adores letters and can be reached at .

Only If

8 February 2007
Vol. 6, No. 4
poetry, love poem, ekphrastic

if the salt-cured ham glazed

with honey is no longer

my sweet sweat on your

tongue and your fingertips

forget journeys along my

forever hips

An Ad in the Chicago Defender

5 February 2007
Vol. 6, No. 4
poetry, prose poem, ekphrastic

don't need much room. forty acres would have been too much. just need a corner of a corner to rest my eyes between shifts. will not be distracted by women or love or necessity of the loins.