by Alan Gilbert
The congregants
welcomed a different
older
compassionate
young man
discussing Jesus
who sat among them
they, a spitting image of Jesus
black welcoming white
Mother Emmanuel
oddly
nervously
shuddering
unJesus
Denmark Vesey
Daniel Simmons Depayne Middleton-Doctor Clementa Pinckney Cynthia Hurd Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Tywanza Sanders Susie Jackson Myra Thompson Ethel Lee Lance
Martin
Coretta Scott King
for an hour
before he
pulled his Glock
Tywanza Sanders, who stood in front of his 87 year old aunt and tried to talk the shooter down, shared a prophetic photograph on Facebook.