Emancipation Queen

It’s true
that beauty
can be a tool
dually wielded
robin’s egg
who would know
come from a red-
breasted bird
taffeta gown
named for what
the body made
its blue
but not the maker
or the blue
from which come
the robin
is that emancipation
to leave beauty behind
a Black girl
on a stage
inside the egg
of a robin
a Black girl who is
a robin
repeating the question