Memorial Fountain

Feeling good, the Mississippi boy from Money whistled loudly.
Living, we know only the silt at the edge of the black water.
Living, we are fully showered by the fountain's luminous ascent.

Emmett Till's mutilation;
The photograph of his bloated body
in an open casket;
His mother's torment;

His body exhumed for testing;
His identity proven;
Yet his executioner's
justice still undone;

He grave resold;
His body moved;
Money donated
in his memory gone;

Emmett Till's fountain still showers the shore of our abyss.