Celebrating the birth and life of Doctor Martin Luther King,  poet Kathryn Stripling Byer shares with readers in her post  "Continuing to Excavate Our Southern Past,"  one of her poems that was first published in Crab Orchard Review and forthcoming in her new book titled Descent from LSU Press,  her poem "What I See Now."
http://kathrynstriplingbyer.blogspot.com/2012/01/continuing-to-excavate-our-southern.html

Read the poem. Your comments are welcome.