Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Every time I thought your name, stars fell upon me.


"We are here in America now as we have been in America always. When we are struck down and held back. When our bodies are corrupted by the violence of others. When we love. When, as now, we are trapped inside of finitude and flesh. During all of this and then some, Black America, we are agents of the eternal." Tracy K. Smith

  

 Gone.
George Perry Floyd, October 14, 1973 - May 25, 2020

Daunte Demetrius Wright, October 27, 2000 - April 11, 2021

Marvin David Scott III, 1995 - March 14, 2021

Patrick Lynn Warren Sr., October 7, 1968 - January 10, 2021

Vincent “Vinny” M. Belmonte, September 14, 2001 - January 5, 2021

Angelo Quinto, March 10, 1990 - December 26, 2020

Andre Maurice Hill, May 23, 1973 - December 22, 2020

Casey Christopher Goodson Jr., January 30, 1997 - December 4, 2020

Angelo “AJ” Crooms, May 15, 2004 - November 13, 2020

Sincere Pierce, April 2, 2002 - November 13, 2020

Marcellis Stinnette, June 17, 2001 - October 20, 2020

Jonathan Dwayne Price, November 3, 1988 - October 3, 2020

Dijon Durand Kizzee, February 5, 1991 - August 31, 2020

Rayshard Brooks, January 31, 1993 - June 12, 2020

Carlos Carson, May 16, 1984 - June 6, 2020

David McAtee, August 3, 1966 - June 1, 2020

Tony “Tony the TIger” McDade, 1982 - May 27, 2020

list con't. -Renée Ater

 

In Memoriam

The universe shrank
when you went away.
Every time I thought your name,
stars fell upon me.

 
— Henry Dumas (poet, social activist, teacher)

from Renée Ater

Tracy K. Smith in LitHub



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