The African Burial Ground
by Anna Berry
to those who built Manhattan
everything depends
upon
the black en-
slaved
paved with lash
scars
beneath the white
money
Anna Berry is an artist and writer from Scotland. Her visual art tends to comprise installations, usually paper, and photography. Her poems and art often riff around the idea that cognition shapes reality. This is related to her disabilities, including brain-damage, which dictate she inhabits rather a parallel universe. Ideas of great struggle often recur. Her work can also be quite political, taking the form of cultural criticism from the stance of an outside observer.