Author's note: Concrete, or "shape" poems are very carefully formatted to enhance or illustrate the theme or topic of the poem.
Poem background: The book referenced in this item description is an historical fiction for adolescents about a shameful day in 1963. On that day, in Birmingham, Alabama, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, four young girls aged 10-14, were murdered in the firebombing of the church where they were attending Sunday school.
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