One Week After the Lynching of George Floyd

It’s beginning

again in plain sight

as it does every morning

the day breaks

ruptures the silence.

White men gather

with their bats swinging,

on streets

in the city, where the bell,

liberty’s bell

is broken.

No space to publicly declare,

be heard,

let alone grieve

without threat.

These are tactics of

white supremacy

and a military unleashed

against its people.

Witness American complicity.