A New American South: Impressions from the Front Porch on Juneteenth

When the South says revival 
Does it mean black homecomings and 
voices so loud and proud that they break 
the chained resistance of the enslaved horror? 
When the South says revival 
does revolution find its way? 
Black cookouts are Camelot 
in the South– 
Celebrations despite 
the forked tongues that pressed cruelty 
when the South said survival, 
Instead of reparation.