Written by Robert HaydenThe writer was born in 1913 in Detroit, Michiganand died in 1980. He was America's first black poet laureate.Read more about him HERE and HEREThose Winter SundaysSundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor in the weekday weather madebanked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.I'd wake and hear
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