Free at Last: A Juneteenth PoemAfter 300 years of forced bondage; hands bound, descendants of Africapicked up their souls all that they owned leaving shackles where they fell on the ground,headed for the nearest resting place to be found Deeply emotional, evocative free verse by poet and activist Sojourner Kincaid Rolle traces the solemnity and celebration of Juneteenth from its 1865 origins in Galveston, Texas to contemporary observances all over the United States. This is an ode

planted by Spanish missionaries/ in the 18th century

For example

former It-girl fashion editor

there was Fighting Shirley Chisholm

But it's not easy being bad

When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle

Charleston

Edmund Graham III

Are any of them still alive

will they stop and stare

lean and wearing all black--black T-shirt

Months into her shaky reign as empress