hands clasped behind her head
she affects nonchalance
yet squirms...
-- thinned out,
as though flattened
under a plate
on a glass slide.
These are not tears
(Saline agar)
Suspend
phage Doubt --
bacterium of fear.
***
So when we meet the Beast
We shall met him with dignity, with grace --
With voices upraised in song.
(for Ms. Sandra Bland in Heaven)
