May Golden Shovel #15.1

source: Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion

 

It should not be so difficult, unearthing

America’s past and present in black and white. The

Facts exist today, tomorrow, yesterday, their roots

Not entombed in an ancient past. The face of

Truth is not Medusa’s. How long will it take for Black

Lives to remain real for whites when Blacks are not in rebellion?

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I’m continuing to use Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.