Last poetry!

This week I'm doing "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation,south carolina,1989." This is the poem I'm doing for poetry presentation! This poem is a dark one (surprise!). It's talking about slaves and how they weren't worth anything back in the day. like they were property and weren't accounted for and didn't have names. It's like you're standing at this cemetery but there aren't any headstones or anything to recognize the people who've passed here. The author is like "tell me your names." He wants to know who these people are. "nobody mentions slaves and yet the curious tools shine with your fingerprints." Back then no one took notice of the slaves no one bothered to write down names or when they were born or died. The only reason we know they even existed is because the tool shave their fingerprints and the fields had been worked. There are two lines italicized "the inventory lists ten slaves but only men were recognized." So finally there's a written record of them being there, but it's only for men. There's no name s of women or even a number of women because they were black AND women which was really two marks against you. The lines are italicized because this is the shift in the poem. The author is no longer walking in the cemetery he's asked to see the list of slaves that worked here, and he sees how miss treated they were. He uses the two lines and the use of repetition to get his point across. "among the rocks at the walnut grove some of these honored dead were dark some of these dark were slaves some of these slaves were women some of them did this honored work. tell me your names, foremothers, brothers, tell me your dishonored names. here lies here lies here lies here lies hear." He wants the reader to see the afterlife of a slave and how mistreated they were. The author also didn't capitalize anything; he did this on purpose to show that he's not going to honor the grammar code just like slaves weren't honored at all for anything they ever did. This is a 5 stanza poem, every stanza varying in length and style. The last one uses repetition while the first serves as a set in scenery.