BEGIN AGAIN, HE SAYS, IN THE AFTER TIME
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America
And Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own
--Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Backward letters on a shower curtain
tells a story about asylum seekers,
scheduled deportation flights,
No Están Solo, no you're not--
No We're Not. Here's a post card
poem written to a Poetry Pole,
hand-stamped at the post office,
Professor Glaude, grateful for your all,
how much do I love what you say
about Coltrane's Pursuance,
your insight a sustaining epiphany.
A love supreme. Racial philanthropists,
Ouch! No name connecting
with Emerson. But what
a way to Whitman! The After Times.
Your walk to the abyss
into yourself. Your Dad,
thanks again, road trip
in and out of Montgomery.
Lucky students facing courage.
Highway 65. Jimmy was right.
The evasion, the evasion.
This note before ICE flight
witness, Yakima, 60 minutes.
Jim Bodeen
31 July--8 September 2020
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