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Collage composed of black and white text descriptions and photographs of Black women and girls found on police missing flyers and the FBI’s Most Wanted list.
 
Collage composed of B&W descriptions and photographs of Black women and girls found on police missing flyers and the FBI’s Most Wanted list.
 
Collage composed of B&W descriptions and photographs of Black women and girls found on police missing flyers and the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

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This poem is composed of descriptions and photographs of Black women and girls found on police missing flyers and the FBI’s Most Wanted list. The poem reflects on the ways Black women and girls are neglected, reduced, and fused together; how we are violently sought after and violently forgotten.

Source: Poetry (May 2021)
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