The Sacred Earth: Poems on Ancestry, Origin, and the Body as Homeland
Your skin is not a burden. It is an inheritance.
The Sacred Earth is a collection of ninety poems that return again and again to a single, grounding truth: the body is a living archive of everything that came before it. Skin as earth. Memory as inheritance. The self as landscape shaped by ancestors who walked, survived, and refused to disappear.
Moving through images of red clay, baobab trees, river water, indigo dye, and drumbeat, this collection traces themes of ancestry, African identity, diaspora, resilience, and belonging — not as abstractions, but as things carried in the body itself. Each poem is short, meditative, and built to be read slowly: one at a time, like a small prayer.
Written for anyone seeking language for the quiet pride of origin, The Sacred Earth is a reminder that where you come from is not a shadow to escape, but ground to stand on.
This edition includes a full table of contents and space at the back for the reader’s own reflections and lines.
