Voices carry is an art journal page I created last summer. I was reminded of it after witnessing Cory Booker’s 25 hour speech, and the protests going on all over America yesterday. This video from Joe Katz in Boston made me cry. I could feel “This too is America” down to my bones.
This morning I read Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poem.
After the political rally, standing on the corner
was the man in the pink flamingo onesie
and the handlebar mustache playing ukelele,
singing “This Land Was Made for You And Me,”
surrounded by folks still carrying their signs
for Peace, Diversity and Equality, and though
no one was listening, though there were no news trucks,
no microphones, no megaphones, and no way
any politician would hear their voices or see their signs,
there they were, singing and showing up despite,
and this was the moment that made me believe
in the path—not just the grand marches toward freedom,
but also the thin trails marked with courage and creativity,
small moments I can follow like bread crumbs
till this country again feels like home.
—Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerThis too is America, indeed. May our voices carry.
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