Sam Cornish Poetry Tribute
JACKIE ROBINSON
the uniform and ball
are white but Jackie is
New Jersey
Harlem separate drinking fountains
empty seats
at the back
of a southern bus
my world is on fire
my world is Sunday
and someday
Jackie in his uniform
White enough to be America
but now Jackie shines
like Louis Armstrong
like a preacher
in the church
he’s the rock
the hidin’ place
the uniform and the ball
and Jackie Robinson Negro
EBONY
My father labored
in the mine his
hands blacker than
his face
face as black
as
coal his hands
darkest
coal dust
my mother
a fair skinned
woman former
schoolteacher
worked at home
read the Bible
and prayed &
I became
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