Poetry and Democracy: Part Four

Ron Welburn and Reginald Dwayne Betts
Blind at night in the forest,/ you are right about fear and/ what it does to you there,/ how fluids and adrenaline fix the eyes/ on what the mind cannot accept./ And this explains it all:/ How when they came here/ the thick forests unnerved them,/ How they couldn’t find each other/ in the pursuit of some theory of white.