"Jethro's Corner" by Reginald Dwayne Betts

"Jethro's Corner", a poem by Visiting Lecturer on English Reginald Dwayne Betts was featured in The Atlantic. An excerpt is included below: 

I      Maps
The corner of Ashmun & Grove & the sometimes
When the only evidence is a map; the disappearing

English of old: plat, a funky word that exists most
In memory, meant to make a plan or map of;
To draw to scale; to plot.

A man who cannot read coordinates can still plot
On his freedom. Imagine a rectangle on the oldest
Map in these nine squares of geography

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