I always like summer

    best

    you can eat fresh corn

    from daddy''s garden

    and okra

    and greens

    and cabbage

    and lots of

    barbecue

    and buttermilk

    and homemade ice-cream

    at the church picnic

    and listen to

    gospel music

    outside

    at the church

    homecoming

    and go to the mountains with

    your grandmother

    and go barefooted

    and be warm

    all the time

    not only when you go to bed

    and sleep

    By: Nikki Giovanni