To "Serve and Protect" Tanka

written in response to Barack Obama's eulogy delivered at John Lewis's funeral 

George Wallace

may be gone but we witness ...

blood red paint

on a pair of giant bronze hands

named Serve and Protect

NeverEnding Story, July 31 2020

Notes:

1 George Wallace (1919-98), the four-time governor of Alabama and four-time candidate for president of the United States, became known as the embodiment of resistance to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. 

2 “Serve and Protect” is a large bronze sculpture by artist Gregory Ragland depicting two hands side-by-side with their palms facing upward, demonstrating the sign language, "to serve."