What do you think you get and what do you think the audience gets? I think that when I get the most, the audience gets the most too. And it's a mutual, it's almost a ritual of shared emotional experience. There is a touching, a strengthening of what I'm trying to do with my poetry and a connection between people, which I believe is what poetry is all about. Moonmarked and touched by sun, my magic is unwritten, but when the sea turns back, it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood, unrelenting as the curse of love, permanent as my errors or my pride. I do not mix love with pity nor hate with scorn, and if you would know me, look into the entrails of Uranus, where the restless oceans pound. I do not dwell within my birth nor my divinities, who am ageless and half grown, and still seeking my sisters, which is in Dahomey, where me inside their coiled cloths as our mother did morning. I have been woman for a long time, beware my smile. I am treacherous with old magic, and the noon's new fury with all your wide futures promised. I am woman, and not white. you