Wednesday, July 10, 2019

small brown hands

There was a white face
that spoke on the T.V.

He said the brown
small faces,
taken from their
brown mothers as
their brown hands reach-

were being sent 
to the equivalent of 
a Summer Camp.

Summer Camp
like the ones named
after the red faces
killed off long ago
by the great great great
fathers of white faces

Summer Camp
with
Small brown hands
making leather wallets
arts and crafts
(glitter and beads)
first kisses
canoeing on sleepy lakes

singing by campfire.

yes white face this is a camp.

sexual assault
illness
death

this is that kind of camp-
killing something inside them
some will never have words for
small brown hands always reaching-
until they close shut.

small brown hands in fists
they will carry for life










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