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A Robin's Poem by Nikki Giovanni

if you plant grain you get fields of flour if you plant seeds you get grass or babies i planted once and a robin red breast flew in my window but a tom cat wouldn't let it stay

— The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni (Page 119)

Reborn by Jason Irwin

A man in a green mask asks me to count backwards from one hundred. At ninety-eight the table begins to spin, and I am swallowed by the light that hangs above me like giant insect eyes.

I can mark time by the surgeries; the way my grandmother marked my growth with pencil slashes on her kitchen door frame.

Each time I awoke from that abyss – my mouth a desert; my eyes two stones sunk in my skull – some small part of me had died; some small part was reborn.

— A Blister of Stars by Jason Irwin (Page 25)

The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nikki Giovanni

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence.

— The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni (Page 51)

Sometimes by Nikki Giovanni

sometimes when i wake up in the morning and see all the faces i just can't breathe

— The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni (Page 132)