Emancipation PTSD

Squinting into the sun

Fog blanket pulled over cool ground

Driving east towards the sea

Bayside walk sounded good

Advertisements for historic carriage rides

Sugar coated tour guide lectures

Glory of Antebellum South

Walk by slave auction museum

Imagine slave cargoes arriving

Fantasize renaming Calhoun Street

Vesey or Turner Boulevard

Flee the salt smell of the sea

Emancipation PTSD vertigo

A strawberry scone and coffee

Sidewalk table in a city of steeples

10-20-22