“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure”
Copyright © 2021 by Nicole Sealey. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on May 7, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.
Poems
Find and share the perfect poems.
More by this poet
When I hear news of a hitchhiker
struck by lightning yet living,
or a child lifting a two-ton sedan
to free his father pinned underneath,
or a camper fighting off a grizzly
with her bare hands until someone,
a hunter perhaps, can shoot it dead,
my thoughts turn to black people—
2017