by Sarah Sarai
32 mug shots of
Freedom Riders
arrested 24 May
1961 and jailed
Jackson
Mississippi.
John Lewis is
third from right
top row.
CT Vivian second
row
second from left.
In
Louisville KY
435 mug shots
of
as many protestors
jailed
saying her
name
(Breonna
Taylor)
are not yet
released.
Add 400
more
Freedom Riders.
I can’t
find them
all,
those
solid of will.
Sarah Sarai’s poems are in DMQ Review, The Southampton Review, E-Ratio, and others. Her second full-length collection is That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books). She lives in New York.
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