– On viewing Inauguration Day photographs.
The world’s compass stopped – Our national glass coffin exposed remains of vital youth once brimming with enthusiasm, brimming with curiosity, brimming into tomorrow
Now Beaten Now Swollen Now Morphed
Into something other
A repellant death mask resurrecting history’s face
Nativism from our antediluvian past
A face of Hatred Fear Coarseness Lives defaced beyond recognition
Encased within a coffin Showing how we died –
By a land and people clawed by revenge
Faces not the future but
of thoughts resurrected
thoughts resown
thoughts returned
thoughts beyond recognition
Image credit: Nick Number CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikipedia article about Emmet Till. Image cropped.