When my friend José Oseguera—author of the wonderful poetry collections The Milk of Your Blood and And This House Is Only a Nest—invited me to participate in an online protest reading he was organizing, I was honored. I also knew I’d need to write something new for the occasion. The event, “100 Days of Protest,” took place this past Tuesday evening on Zoom … and, typically for me, I sat down to write “The Details” just a few hours prior. Watch below. (The video is queued up to the start of the poem.)