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In a special archival edition, the editors discuss an excerpt from Danez Smith's “summer, somewhere,” published in the January 2016 issue of Poetry.
summer, somewhere. Danez Smith. somewhere, a sun. below, boys brown. as rye play the dozens & ball, jump. in the air & stay there. boys become new. moons, gum-dark on all sides, beg bruise. -blue water to fly, at least tide, at least. spit back a father or two. i won’t get started. history is what it is. it knows what it did.
from SUMMER, SOMEWHERE somewhere, a sun. below, boys brown as rye play the dozens & ball, jump in the air & stay there. boys become new moons, gum-dark on all sides, beg bruise-blue water to fly, at least tide, at least spit back a father or two. i won’t get started. history is what it is. it knows what it did. bad dog. bad blood. bad day to ...
- Danez Smith
somewhere, a sun. below, boys brown
From “summer, somewhere”. Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day.
a truck, a parade for himself & his wet red gown, years ago. we plucked brothers from branches unpeeled their naps from bark. sometimes a boy walks into his room. then walks out into his new world.
Feb 26, 2018 · “Summer, somewhere,” the first poem in Smith’s latest collection, “Don’t Call Us Dead,” is a carefully constructed afterlife free from — and built by — a history of racial violence.
