Atone

After working on the sign project for 2 years this burst out of me

Atone
Lynching of Julia (daughter) and Frazier Baker (father) as retold at BlackPast.org
BLM - rbcdart
All pieces and projects that are based on Black Lives Matter or Saying Their Names

How to atone

Is there rope in your attic

A souvenir

Are there teeth in a jar

your relative took

How to atone

Perhaps you will name your child

after one of those that dangled there

that sunny picnic day

Say everyday with love and tears a name

to whom those teeth once belonged

and that rope hung

How to atone

I don’t know