History Repeating Repeating
Curated by Jazmin Witherspoon, Program and Operations Manager at Furious Flower
How do we memorialize an event that is still ongoing? – Christina Sharpe
There is not a novel thing under this sun. Territories are still brawled along the same tired frontiers. Mankind revisits buried ideologies resurrected under sparkly new monikers. Somewhere there is always a fire scorching burnt-out throats, the flames roar tangling with the hoarse cries of those suffering. The poem, in this timeless cycle, is both the “cry for help” and the reminder that “fear itself is a whole lot to fear”. The poem encourages us to resist the urge to “fly through your days until time is a smear”. History attempts to cover his own tracks, but the poem distills the essence of what remains true: “It’s us against them” is the oldest story ever told. We know how it ends.
Furious Flower Poetry Center
