Harvey Milk icon by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM Trinity Stores

By Kit Kennedy

How is it possible to know
someone so well
whom you have never met? 

A candle lit. Resisting the closet.
An armband with pink triangle.
Witness the City’s namesake
park, granite columns and foxglove.

In those (and these) times can a person
sustain a halo? Yes, a hat for Harvey.
Afterglow of hope and iconographic
as the Bridge.

Kit Kennedy is the Bay Times poet in residence.