7:40 Mark

Watch Sacramento police officers shoot Stephon Clark dead

The Herald Sun, Mar 21, 2018

WARNING: Graphic content. The Sacramento Police Department has released body cam footage of the shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, in his grandparents' backyard. This footage is from camera 1. The shooting occurs near the 7:40 mark.

After the long wet winter,

all that time didn’t find me

an ending. 
Do you remember?

I was forever, that dark reel

stalled in space

still alive at the 6:20 mark,

I can’t tell you what 

and then

something is spilling

urgent, my eyes

let me be

brave

from far away, running,

Mom-mom’s backyard

the grass I laid, giddy, as a boy

some summers

                some fall

tapping on the window like,

member we found that kitten?

sliding to the ground like, 

how we play, waiting to wake​,

already here.

alive at the 7:12

28 seconds left

unexpected, terrible
ordinary day

tiny eternity resting
in my childhood

as if there was a shelter

                8 seconds

shiny screaming hole

red faced.           tears, no sound

that quiet kid

                splitting, insistent, I am




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