For Eric Garner. Again.

we say names / over / again / like our saying will block the flood of our blood falling / again / like our saying will bring them back / again / but what do we have / besides our saying / to remind us / to tell our children / to keep getting up / again / body after another body / again / again / since before any of us were here / still / numb / ice / frozen / no charges filed / again / police not guilty / again / five years later we say his name / we shout it to the gods we know / we breathe for him / we remember his hands / that planted / helped grow / his skin / neck / flesh / we remember that he was flesh / that he was here and mattered / took space on this planet / was our brother / was ours / was us