Happy Mothers Day to Mothers Impacted by Mass Incarceration

A poem to honor all women in prison (especially those who are mothers) and all women who have sons and daughters in prison.
Dear Mr. Ellison
By Vivian Denise Nixon
You were a man.
I am a woman.
There is a difference.
Our Mother is Africa.
There is a connection.
You have become spirit.
My flesh still lives.
Your seed blossomed
in the fertile soil of
Harlem’s [...]

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