Drew Barker, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:21:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Drew Barker, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 Hampton: Colossus of Roads (Ode to 1619 in 1861) https://hyacinthreview.org/drew-barker-hampton-colossus-of-roads-ode-to-1619-in-1861/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drew-barker-hampton-colossus-of-roads-ode-to-1619-in-1861 Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=5236 On the banks of Fort Monroe Runaways gathered rocks To sink their boats To strand themselves. To the chagrin of Confederate slavers And the halting awe of Union soldiers, Black men claimed themselves on the spot Where the coast met the first enslaved. Shoeless feet now bestride the worlds From chattel slavery to nascent freedom;…

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