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Central City\n\t\t\nafter Charles Anderson, graphite and charcoal\n\t2015 Top Prize Winner, Artfields, Lake City, SC \n\nIn Joe\u2019s Barbershop,\non the corner of Acline and West Main,\nwe art tourists stay \n\nbehind the yellow ribbon\nso no one gets too close \nto the scissors.\n\nYou smell pomades and powder.\nThey offer a lineup, neck cleanup,\nand a one-blade buzz cut.\n\nThe 7-year-old black boy on the wall \nwill not look you in the eye.\nHe does not want you to see how hurt he is.\n\nI said to a barber in a wheelchair,\n\u201cI was just in Baltimore.\nThis child is what the riots were about.\u201d\n\nHe reached over the yellow ribbon\nand shook my hand.\n\u201cAn excellent analogy,\u201d he said.\n\nAnd it was: the charcoal and graphite on paper,\nthe lost boy,\nthe two hands crossing the line.\n\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Ed Gold<\/strong> is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and taught for many years at the University of Maryland. He has a chapbook,\u00a0Owl<\/em>, and poems in the Ekphrastic Review<\/em>, Petigru Review<\/em>, New Verse News<\/em>, Think<\/em>, New York Quarterly<\/em>, Kakalak<\/em>, and others.\u00a0Ed\u00a0runs the Skylark Poetry Contest for SC high school poets. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife Amy and their dog Edie.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Central City after Charles Anderson, graphite and charcoal 2015 Top Prize Winner, Artfields, Lake City, SC In Joe\u2019s Barbershop, on the corner of Acline and West Main, we art tourists stay behind the yellow ribbon so no one gets too close to the scissors. You smell pomades and powder. They offer a lineup, neck cleanup, and a one-blade buzz cut. The 7-year-old black boy on the wall will not look you in the eye. He does not want you to see how hurt he is. I said to a barber in a wheelchair, \u201cI was just in Baltimore. This child is what the riots were about.\u201d He reached over the yellow ribbon and shook my hand. \u201cAn excellent analogy,\u201d he said. And it was: the charcoal and graphite on paper, the lost boy, the two hands crossing the line. Ed Gold is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and taught for many years at the University of Maryland. He has a chapbook,\u00a0Owl, and poems in the Ekphrastic Review, Petigru Review, New Verse News, Think, New York Quarterly, Kakalak, and others.\u00a0Ed\u00a0runs the Skylark Poetry Contest for SC high school poets. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife Amy and their dog Edie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2006","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t