Page 19 - Poetry Book-John-sims

Buried in state flags
South of the Dixie line
Flying on Capitol Grounds
South of North Carolina

Hanging high
A recolored One
Red, Black and Green
In an Art Space
South of Houston
To Harlem
To Gettysburg

To Tallahassee
For a Remembering of Cries of Color
And a Flag of Treason and Terror

And before this flag
There were many
Lost in a Committee
Lost on the road to defeat
Lost in the imagination of southern swamps

Of flat Stars
Of black Blues
Bloody Reds AfroConfederate Battle Flag, 2000 - John Sims
And washed out Whites
For a Remembering of Cries of Color
And a Flag of Treason and Terror

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