Race/Race
stock strain family line
breed blood skin shape
of the head of the pack
animal human judge
better fitter swiftly
to find foot horse car run
for your life around
town the block the camp
to the top the finish contend
compete in for against
the other the not so
great not even in the
Credit
Copyright © 2016 by Martha Collins. From Admit One: An American Scrapbook (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016). Reprinted from Split This Rock’s The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database.
Date Published
03/23/2016