Summer Prayer Over Fresh Graves
Kamilah Aisha Moon | Poetry
At some point
each day, somewhere,
the sky drenches
what lives.
When it happens
here, deep south sun
swaggers out, shrugs
like it never happened.
Cracked, dark pavement
lightens, mud quick-dries
back into dust
& the leaves’ lustre
makes them look
brand new.
Science or
magic trick, Sun,
please teach us
not to drown.
Kamilah Aisha Moon is the author of Starshine & Clay and She Has a Name, both from Four Way Books. Her work has been published widely, including in Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, Poem-A-Day, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize winner who has received fellowships to MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, and Hedgebrook, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
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