Drive to Ponce de Leon Park

Leah
2 min readJan 4, 2023

The streets bear the names of colonizers

Pretty houses painted pastel pink

Sit atop manicured lawns

The hard-fought neighborhood park proclaims:

First white man killed here

It’s history worth preserving

In a habitat demolished

To build a habitat reserve

Where fish swim slowly in rippling murky water

Didn’t they hear what happened

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Leah

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