written in response to the Derek Chauvin trial verdict for the killing of George Floyd and Joe Biden's remarks
for a moment
our country can breathe without fear ...
until somewhere
some young black man collides
with the shadow of a white cop
FYI: ... This can be a giant step forward in the march toward justice in America. Let’s also be clear that such a verdict is also much too rare... excerpted from Remarks by President Biden on the Verdict.
My tanka set below could be read as a poetic response the story about "until somewhere ..."
ReplyDelete(Random) Street Check, a tanka set about "proactive" policing and "racial" profiling
waiting
alone in the glare
of police car headlights
I become small
and smaller
in the dark
I dash to and fro
settling
nowhere, this Beast
imagined or real
NeverEnding Story, September 14, 2020