Witnessing the Blues: The Black Body In Perpetual Motion

by Max S. Gordon

(“Run to You” by Kerream Jones, used with permission from the artist)

(This essay originally appeared in “Imagining: A Gibney Journal, #5”, published by the Gibney Company Community Center on May 5, 2021.)

I got the key to the highway,
Billed out and bound to go
I’m gonna leave here running
Because walking is most too slow…”