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.
At home we pray every morning, we
get down on our knees in a circle,
holding hands, holding Love,
and we sing hallelujah.
Then we go into the world.
Daddy speeds,... ULYSSES by Gwendolyn Brooks.