Black Lives Matter
By Joel Fisher
The black pain explodes
Where he dropped
Disintegrating to flowers
And in that moment
Shot and shot and shown
The heavy-gauged
Is a mourning of
Its blue-grey trigger
The reality that
On this pavement
Stained just as red
We hold, self-evident
Black Lives Matter
Joel Fisher is currently an undergraduate reading Creative Writing at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Photo credit: “Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge” by Jonathan Bachman for Reuters.