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| Airea Matthews reads her poem "Wisdom" |
By Zerri Trosper
Before Airea D. Matthews steps into the role of the speaker of the poem “Wisdom,” she opens with a claim that provides historical context, which places the audience in specific positions of both viewership and ownership. Hurricane Katrina remains a prominent environmental disaster that had disproportionately affected black lives and those who were economically disadvantaged.
Matthews deliberate change in tone paired with the orthographic variations creates an individual window into the Wisdom family no doubt, but one that is shared by many others who were forgotten about in the water.
Although, what continues to remain memorable long after listening to “Wisdom,” are the emotions that Matthews extracts throughout the senses. Not only can the audience feel the soil between our fingers, but we taste the sourness of life taken too abruptly, we hear the souls that linger between the halls, we can smell the pride that comes from living decades in something that was built for you and by you. By the end of this poem I am left asking myself is it honorable to stand beside something that is already lost and if not, were the 40% ever left with another option?
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