The wind inthe big elm blew And the leaves took flight like birds The air crackled, split by fear The black boys had arrived…
Seeming to prayI knelt well into the stairscondensing Godto emergency exits.
‘Two at a time. That’s all that’s allowed.’ The cops let a pair enter. The throng surrounding the store, To those…
Implicit in any dire comparisons
Between the fall of Rome