FLOWN ON ANECDOTE*

the wind

has caught it

carried it

allowed it

to spread

its storied wings

wide, to travel

across time

and history

soaring 

high above

the terrain

of shame below

that has been so

unbearably

burdensome

that white flight

has been the only way

to escape 

the brutal truth

that’s indelibly

etched

in earth’s

ebony flesh

the wind of change

won’t and can’t carry

story that way no more

*title comes from How To Be An Antiracist