Larry Chang: Poems

The Real Eve

On viewing documentary of same name on the Discovery Channel
Washington, 2002/5/4

If what they say is true
and we are all descended
from Africa Mother
each time I mix my sperm
with the cum of a black man
we celebrate our blood
brotherhood
common genetic inheritance
dance of flagellates
in reunion
one potent solution
to difference and division
me seeking the roots
him the branches
we face
each the other.