Ann-Margaret Lim has just published the poem 'One Summer' for Poem-a-Day at Poets.org. Of the poem, Ann-Margaret says,
“Sometimes, years, decades after a death, you wake up grieving, your eyes wet, as if the person died yesterday. As a teen, I didn’t know I would write a poem about Stephen, hoping that somehow someone would read and realize how bigotry and racism steals from so many of us. Stephen’s parents, brother, sister, aunties, uncles, cousins, his entire family, and friends lost him and the grief lingers. The ‘Strange Fruit’ Billie Holiday sang about were people’s family, people’s presentence and possible future, like Stephen was; like Emmett; like Breonna; like George.”
