#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream

Charles River, end of day

. . . .,Something happened

In Sanford, something happened in Ferguson

And Brooklyn & Charleston, something happened

In Chicago & Cleveland & Baltimore & happens

Almost everywhere in this country every day.

Probably someone is prey in all of our encounters.

You won’t admit it. The names alive are like the names

In graves. Probably twilight makes blackness

Darkness. And a gate. Probably the dark blue skin

Of a black man matches the dark blue skin

Of his son the way one twilight matches another.

~ Terrence Hayes, excerpt from American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous”