Angelina Grimke, "The Black Finger" (in "The New Negro" [1925])
I have just seen a most beautiful thing
Slim and still,
Against a gold, gold sky,
A straight black cypress,
Sensitive,
Exquisite,
A black finger
Pointing upwards.
Why, beautiful still finger, are you black?
And why are you pointing upwards?
—Angelina Grimke.
Published in The New Negro, 1925