The 1619 Project by Caitlin Roper

Author:Caitlin Roper [Roper, Caitlin & SIlverman, Ilena & Silverstein, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2021-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

a hate that would outdo itself

to a menacing ritual of fire,

wood, and blood.

The bombs turned clouds

into shadows of themselves.

Single-engine aircrafts

hovered so low

the bodies under them

thought the world was

ending, and how could

it not be

“Run, Negro!”

Thirty-five(ish) blocks,

and a flame that spent days

burning itself tired,

Three hundred (ish)

Black folks murdered

into anonymity.

Greenwood

has a soggy, muck clay,

a damp inconsistency

of earth, Constitution,

and bone.

Some buried, homeless, in Oaklawn,

some trampled beneath the dirt.

A history tucked away

in attic floorboards

long enough to forget

all it once was.

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