Poem: Cross Street Bridge

I stood on the Cross Street Bridge with thirty or forty friends I didn’t know our presence and the signs we held the banners and flags unfurled proclaimed our disdain for ICE roaming the streets of America the murders in Houston and Biddeford fresh in our minds and hearts I said their names silently screaming inside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero   we stood on the Cross Street Bridge 4:00-5:00 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon strangers and people we knew all of us neighbors protestin … (read more)

If you are concerned, angry and appalled at these killings and these immigration policies, you are invited to join a vigil on Saturday, July 25, from 4-5 p.m. at the Cross Street Bridge in Middlebury.

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