Audre's Recreation by Elsa Saade

My humble revival of Audre Lorde's immortal poetry through song*

Poem by Audre Lorde: Recreation
Vocals and music by Elsa Saade
Recording: Mohammad Golabi
Image borrowed from a Photograph by Andre Kertesz

"Coming together
it is easier to work
after our bodies
meet
paper and pen
neither care nor profit
whether we write or not
but as your body moves
under my hands
charged and waiting
we cut the leash
you create me against your thighs
hilly with images
moving through our word countries
my body
writes into your flesh
the poem
you make of me.

Touching you I catch midnight
as moon fires set in my throat
I love you flesh into blossom
I made you
and take you made
into me."

Audre Lorde, “Recreation” from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.