Kwansaba: Memwar for the Fallen & the Risen by Eugene B. Redmond

Kwansaba: Memwar for the Fallen & the Risen

It's fall on Planet Ferguson where poetrees
shed leaves & tears onto storied &
varied colors of  peace-scapes. Like Juneteenth,
jubilee & terror shade our memwars with
Emmetts, Oscars, Trayvons & Michaels. Till we
forge a seesaw of fallen/risen, marchin'
toward Gil Scott-Heron's "Winter in America."

                              Eugene B. Redmond (eredmon@siue.edu)
                  Poet laureate of East Saint Louis, Illinois - October 21, 2014