"The Black Unicorn" by Audre Lorde

THE BLACK UNICORN

The black unicorn is greedy.

The black unicorn is impatient.

The black unicorn was mistaken

for a shadow

or symbol

and taken

through a cold country

where mist painted mockeries

of my fury.

It is not on her lap where the horn rests

but deep in her moonpit

growing.

The black unicorn is restless

the black unicorn is unrelenting

the black unicorn is not

free.

 

Source of the text - Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1978, p.3.

TJB: Symbolless symbol; haecceity with a horn. Here, the black unicorn is pure uniqueness—within the moonpit—& also the rage of an entire people.