American history

Michael S. Harper

· Poem of the day

American history

Those four black girls blown up

in that Alabama church

remind me of five hundred

middle passage blacks,

in a net, under water

in Charleston harbor

so redcoats wouldn't find them.

Can't find what you can't see

can you?

—Michael S. Harper [Selected poems]

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