Black History Month, not Poetry Thursday

 breathe we
~Juan Felipe Herrera

breathe for George Floyd we
 
breathe for compassion we
do not know what that is we

another black man holy we
gone now George Floyd we
Ahmaud running street endless we
America scream & love we
 
do not know what love is we
breathe George Floyd flames we
 
next to you on a sp halt cho  ke we
knee Am Am

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Copyright © 2020 by Juan Felipe Herrera. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 14, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.