Modern Middle Passage

lasting images
from the
Middle Passage

generations lost
to an
unforgiving sea

and a
more
unforgiving
land

nearly
five hundred
years from
then to now

nearly
twenty five
generations
of fathers
having sons
ripped from
their arms


current images
from the
Modern Middle Passage

generations lost
to an
unforgiving society

and a
more
unforgiving
system

nearly
fifteen million
fathers and
sons struggling
to know
each other