Homage to My Hips
by Lucille Clifton Read

these hips are big hips.
they need space to move around in.
they don't fit into little petty places.
these hips are free hips.

they don't like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.

these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them to put a spell
on a man and spin him like a top!