This savage wish on certain days
To mingle blows and blood
To feel beneath the bites
That make the kisses last,
The sobbing of the loved one, and her pain:
Of fierce unquenched desires
Of my dark forebears
Who partook of human flesh!
Léon Laleau (1892 - 1979) Haiti
Translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy
Source: The Negritude poets : an anthology of translations from the French, Ellen Conroy Kennedy, Viking Press, 1975
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