Who will mourn
for the souls

of people
brutally

uprooted and
displaced

from their
homeland

delivered
in chains

to plantations
built on land

stolen from
their ancestors.

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.