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fun-town flight

by lauren saxon
Spinning chairs / dry air / caressing dark skin
     Children squeal / as they’re lifted / high / into a starless night / 
An amusement park / earning its name
             He’s skinny
Black boy / with his Fresh Prince fade / pastel shorts / nike slides
             He rides behind his little sister
Brown Skin Girl / wearing loud barrettes / that clang / as she cranes her neck 
             Look how high we are
He yelled / and I can tell / no headlines / have tethered his flight
       No fear / of broken tail lights / to anchor him 
                 Niah                                    go no hands
And though I was certain / his voice / got lost in the wind
               She smiled and raised them /
               / He smiled and raised them
And I prayed
That the next time / 
               his world is / spinning / 
and his hands / are up /  
                                              nobody shoots

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Lauren Saxon is a 22 year old poet and mechanical engineer from Cincinnati, Ohio. She attends Vanderbilt University and relies on poetry when elections, church shootings, and police brutality leave her speechless. Lauren's work is featured or forthcoming in Flypaper Magazine, Rhythm & Bones Lit, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Nimrod International Journal and more. She is on poetry staff at Gigantic Sequins, and spends way too much time on twitter (@Lsax_235).

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