Person, woman, man, camera, TV

By Cheryl Caesar 

Nothing has ever been

seen before, nothing like.

Mind without memory.

Life without history.

Actor and audience,

each day he plays anew

on the exhausted screens

of our unwilling eyes.

Cheryl Caesar is a poet, artist and teacher of writing, living in Lansing, Michigan. She is an associate professor at Michigan State University, and does research and advocacy for culturally-responsive pedagogy. Her poetry chapbook Flatman (Thurston Howl Publishing, 2018) chronicles the first Trump administration, and our resistance.