choke hold – Writers Resist

The Hold

By Editor| 2021-06-18T14:16:55-07:00 June 19th, 2021|Categories: Issue 131: 19 June 2021|Tags: Michael Brown, Black Lives Matter, Dante Parker, Poetry, Atatiana Jefferson, police violence, Kathryn Johnston, Eric Garner, Aiyana Mo’Nay Stanley-Jones, George Floyd, choke hold, Breonna Taylor, #BLM, Pat Andrus, Sandra Bland|

By Pat Andrus For Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, George Floyd, seven-year-old Aiyana Mo’Nay Stanley-Jones, Eric Garner, Dante Parker, Atatiana Jefferson, ninety-two-year-old Kathryn Johnston . . . A broken baton a dead rat 5 jailers with guns. How the life loses its state of pure being. How a bone breaks and one rose falls. [...]