![]() She wishes that she could take to her mother about any of them, but the “door” to her mother’s bedroom is closed. She is filled with worries, some of them mundane, others more serious. ![]() She worries about how she looks, what others think of her, and her relationship with her mother. ‘Hanging Fire’ is told from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old girl.The poem addresses his murder and uses disturbing images of violence and death to address rhetoric around race. Lorde described how, after hearing the news on the radio, she had to pull her car over. The poem was inspired by the murder of a ten-year-old black boy named Sean Bell and the acquittal of his murder, Thomas Shea, a New York City cop. ![]() In it, she addresses the justice system, police brutality, and white supremacy.
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