In wishing to depict the harrowing effects of lynching, Jennifer M Pierson has written a series of poems. One among them, “Ash,” describes the physical remnants that adhere to the skin of perpetrators of a particular atrocity, that of the burning of C.J. Miller at Bardwell, Kentucky. It is a dirge intended to demonstrate that no one escapes from their guilt. An excellent source for study is Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s, “On Lynching.”