Flight and Ferguson

As anchored as I sometimes feel,

the birds swooping overhead remind me of

Flight.

Winging in broad arcs

riding thermals I can’t see,

they don’t think of me,

don’t watch me in the day, or the dark.

All summer

They’ve been imprinted on the blue

Soundless and free over my

Car, walk, errands, cry,

Reminding me I can fly.

I don’t know what it would be like

If that feeling of flight was

Taken as casually as men in power

Took the lives of black sons in hoodies.

I see power, grace, flight.

If my children were in danger for being white,

Would I just see vultures?

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