Answer:
The speaker of the poem, "Hanging Fire" by Audre Lorde, is a fourteen-year-old girl whose "skin has betrayed" her.
Step-by-step explanation:
Hanging Fire was written by "black, warrior, poet, mother, lesbian" (self-described) Audre Lorde. The poem was published in her poetry collection "The Black Unicorn" in 1978. The speaker of the poem is a fourteen-year-old girl whose "skin has betrayed" her. She speaks about the worries that she has about her looks. The boy that she likes is immature because he "still sucks his thumb." She wants to learn to dance but her "room is too small for" her. This young fourteen-year-old girl "whose skin has betrayed" her is alone, no one is there to care for her as she twice says in her poem that her "momma's in the bedroom/with the door closed."