Nov 12, 2020
When There Is No Right Way to Heal
The details of those poems may be his first inkling that I know what he did.
Destiny O. Birdsong is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist whose work has either appeared or is forthcoming in African American Review, The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, Guernica, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, will be published by Tin House Books in October 2020.
The details of those poems may be his first inkling that I know what he did.
they ain’t superhuman. ain’t always able / to save the children the men the country or even your silk presses / but whatever they touch. somebody’s good god blesses.
