Jaki Green: Poetry Glossary

Jaki Green: Poetry Glossary

Linen

a cloth made from flax

Burlap

a coarse piece of material which was generally not used for clothing

Patois

dialect

Creole

a biracial person

Unleavened

a bread which does not contain yeast

Shackled

to be tied to something by a metal

Mutation

a structural change

Slash

to cut and to cause a deep laceration

Knotted

in this context, something which cannot be clearly understood

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