Great Regulars: He also finds miracles in the "movements

of machinery" and "children at their sports." He admires "the perfect old man, or the perfect old woman." Even sick people in hospital, and the deceased headed for burial, he finds miraculous. When he views his own reflection in the mirror, he finds his "own eyes and figure" to be miracles.

The speaker finalizes his long catalogue by asserting that these things and even all those things he has not named are "one and all" "to me miracles." Each miracle reflects the whole as it occupies its own space.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Walt Whitman's Miracles

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As with his allusion to Cincinnati riots, the speaker implies that the targets of the lawsuits are just innocent men targeted because they are black. The listener/reader will be well aware that there are innumerable fine African American sports figures, actors, musicians, and other entertainers who have not been the target of a lawsuit.

This unfortunate movement undermines the speaker's credibility that he so richly deserves in other movements, especially the second, which contains important universals truths.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Common's A Letter to the Law

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