Read Olafur Eliasson’s Poem to Accompany His New TIME Cover. 2 minute read. Eliasson, left, and the two pages of the optical illusion TIME cover Artwork by Olafur Eliasson for TIME. Ideas.

Written in response to the “Red Summer,” a period of lynchings and violence against blacks that swept the USA in 1919, McKay’s poem urges readers to be brave and fight back in the face of death.