MORNING LIGHT (the Dew-Drier) by Effie Lee Newsome.
In Africa little black boys, “human brooms,” are sent before the explorers into jungle grasses that tower many feet to tread down a path and meet sometimes the lurking leopard or hyena.
What was his crime? / He only killed his wife. But a divorce I say. / Not final, they say; Her things were his / including her life.” Convicted... WOMANSLAUGHTER by Pat Parker
