Summary: Strange fruit has black seeds. Papaya pearls dropping tropics in our mouths. from "Traveling Seeds" Contemplating the generative power of papaya seeds led writer Jourdan Keith to write a parable about the African diaspora. Her story-poem "Traveling Seeds" is a hybrid of African folktales, Native American legend, Japanese poetic forms and also pays homage to the Harlem Renaissance. Based in Seattle, Jourdan Keith is a poet, storyteller and environmental activist. She served as the Seattle Public
