Danez Smith's 'Tonight, in Oakland' on PoetryNow

As you might expect, Danez Smith absolutely brings it with his new poem "Tonight, in Oakland" on PoetryNow. The poem begins:

I did not come here to sing a blues.
Lately, I open my mouth

& out comes marigolds, yellow plums.
I came to make the sky a garden.

Give me rain or give me honey, dear lord.
The sky has given us no water this year.

I ride my bike to a boy, when I get there
what we make will not be beautiful

or love at all, but it will be deserved.
I’ve started seeking men to wet the harvest.

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