African Burial Ground
These poems by David Mills are part of a series that elegantly and imaginatively explores Manhattan’s African Burial Ground, the oldest and largest such cemetery in the United States.
A Lopsided G-d
Another text, he wrote; tossed it off his tongue addressing “Negroes of the State of New York.”
Lloyd’s Neck/Slink
Scrupulous, astute: to the City he was sent (by) and sometimes went (with) Master Henry to shoehorn deals.
Talking to the Bones: Talking
“That Kalk Hook farm was uppermost?” “I promise: a sky beyond the sky will burn in this earth.”
