Category: Racial & Social justice
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On the Ledge
locked inside all this news, all this rage open a window, look outside crawl out on the ledge and leap walk among the people watch children play couples hand in hand there is more kindness than hate more love than revenge “an eye for an eye leaves us blind” empathy is not weakness there will…
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Facetime
another routine morning drop your child off at school drive home on a residential street camo dressed, masked men surround your car, scream in your face this ain’t no Folgers in your cup wakeup and face the day kind of morning greeting BANG! BANG! BANG! bullets through the windshield somehow this is your fault when…
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The news out of Minnesota
an old stump burns, a rotting hump in our yard, stubborn old roots refusing to leave, lay flat, or conform to the surrounding topography I sit in my chair shovel against the tree watching a bed of hot coals as the past ascends in smoke 1-9-26
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son of a grackle
Dark shadow stalks, waits for tourists to turn their backs to stare at the sea and the shrimp boats that troll the edge where cargo ships churn horizons on the way from here to there It waits for the half-baked, half-naked looking for peace among foam that breaks on grains of sand numerous as Abraham’s…
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In defense of books
You can’t click and delete history that lives on small home bookshelves and in boxes in a thousand attics waiting to be found. When the pillage of chaos has ended and the profiteers have fled, the living will remember, pull hard copies back into the light, take back what was stolen and set things right.…
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Lenten letter
Dear Elon, I don’t want to be holy, But if I could give healing to the sick, Sight to blind, feed the hungry, Clothe the naked, house the homeless And raise from the dead Those who died for corporate profits, I would. You may call me weak, But I will accept this as an accolade…
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Atlantic Beach
because they couldn’t segregate the sea they segregated beaches underdeveloped black owned beach white developers have run out of sand bankers and politicians in back pocket soon they own that, too and push black ownership out to sea 3-23-25 in publication
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Because the clouds fled
Because the clouds fled and did not cover the sun’s retreat the night grew cold this morning, I wait for the sun to return and warm the trees and the trees to warm the air so I may stand alone facing the water my back to the day and count the name of God upon…
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We
When they came with chains, The clouds fled and did not cover the sun’s retreat. They built their walls, they drew their lines, They wrote their rules on crooked signs. We are multitudes against the few. Darkness trembles in our light. When rivers flood and crest the dam We grab debris and rafts of flotsam…
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In defense of Black history month
For those who nobody knows and those who no one can find I’ve talked with some of your family watched them on tv and on the field of play. Many still have a hard way to go. We find your bones in unmarked graves behind where the big house stood or when they’ve cleared the…
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