of metallic hydrogen, amethystor anemone, turtle shells besidean empty bed, or broken diadems.A colored woman cannot singof Hassidim, the salt-rimed stones of Antioch,how the Aegean tastes of sperm, and a sturgeonsqueezes black garnets from its rectum.A colored woman cannot sing of I-beamsor derailleurs, the impact of microwaveson Southern dialect, Froebel blocks,or the smell of milk on your mother's nipple.A colored woman cannot sing of tangerinejuice spilling on the ankle of a white girl,tangerine mist on a white ankle. A coloredwoman cannot sing of standing stones,why dark matter in the galactic halo mustby nonbaryonic, or even hum The Marseillaise.A colored woman cannot singof pilgrims casting garlands into the Ganges,one hundred red spiders dancing on a gray web,or Nanjing and seven heads bobbing in a greasy pool.A colored woman cannot singof minuets and manatees, the flutter of mothson an infant's tongue, nutmegs and milagros,or black tulips buried in a field of snow.