Facing It - Another Look at Image
https://youtu.be/90yxqlVrLP8 Facing It Launch Audio in a New Window BY YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. I said I wouldn't dammit: No tears. I'm stone. I'm flesh. My clouded reflection eyes me like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning. I turn this way—the stone lets me go. I turn that way—I'm inside the Vietnam Veterans Memorial again, depending on the light to make a difference. I go down the 58,022 names , half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke. I touch the name Andrew Johnson ; I see the booby trap's white flash. Names shimmer on a woman's blouse but whe...
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