The Daily Numbers | Slave Trader Plunging Into Ocean

Notebooks: June 20th, 2020

THE DAILY NUMBERS

In my twenties, it was art falling away to politics

and in my thirties, it was politics falling away to life.

Halfway through each decade, a shift.

I used to know how to write it.

Now, a portal door, orbiting far

Sudden water running clear.

Tell me what you know

of the place we were

and how we left it.

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SLAVE TRADER PLUNGING INTO OCEAN 

I like how the statue hesitates, a little –
the uncertainty of all that weight
in place for so long once moving