Poem With Statues Falling - Luisa A. Igloria

[Larry Robinson]


Poem With Statues Falling

It was the summer we took
heads, toppled statues of despots

& slaveholders off their gleaming
plinths; elsewhere, tipped them

into the oily depths of rivers.
It was the summer we gave thanks

for the thousand-thousand bodies
marching in the hearts of grieving,

inflamed cities — how they brought
brave songs & chants, paint &

chalk, words & light to project
the hopes which we must bind

together so we become our own
living, breathing monuments.

	- Luisa A. Igloria

	( Luisa A. Igloria is Poet laureate of Virginia)

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