I found you playing a violin in the forest the Great Lakes were almost empty I walked out with my nephews to the middle of Lake Huron during the recession the gantries were terribly sad playing a song with the wind the useless lighthouses cost one dollar to feel them swaying all alone except one ghost still feeling useful lighting the lamps
"Somehow, the speaker’s identity seems less that of the poet, more identifiable with some Arctic 'elemental'—animal or bird or the ice itself. After gazing out at vast horizons, the poem’s eyes are looking around and down to the nearer landscape. White or yellowish-pelted, the polar bears pad, magically hushed, into the last couplet."
Resources for Supporting and Uplifting the Black Community
Equal Justice Initiative: "EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the U.S., challenging racial and economic injustice, and protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society."
The American Civil Liberties Union: "The ACLU Racial Justice Program aims to preserve and extend constitutionally guaranteed rights to people who have historically been denied their rights on the basis of race."
Academics for Black Survival and Wellness: "Academics for Black Survival and Wellness was organized by a group of Black counseling psychologists and their colleagues who practice Black allyship. Guided by a Black feminist frame, we hope to foster accountability and growth for non-Black people and enhance healing and wellness for Black people."
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"It was not the first poem I loved but it was one which reshaped the foundations of what I thought poetry could be—abstract elliptical essay, sensuous discourse on aesthetic form, history, and a strange kind of oblique confession all woven together into a sprawling imagistic song."
