Praying for Rain

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI:10.1353/cal.2018.a927536

Daniel B. Summerhill

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Praying for Rain
Daniel B. Summerhill (bio)

after Nikki Finney

i first want to say: we are dancing in this rain. the water,a kaleidoscope of color ricocheting off our backs and fallingto the sneaker-beaten concrete. the rift, the shout. ain’t no music, but the bluesinside our waterlogged heads, but we in sync anyway and anyway,the spin, the wind follows— on this 40^th night, we still aint quakethis metronomic storm off, so we antagonize zeus and all his fair-skinned homiesuntil the sky cracks enough to let the light through— [End Page 1]

Daniel B. Summerhill

Daniel B. Summerhill is a poet and essayist who has earned fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts and The Watering Hole. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Monterey County and has published two collections of poems, Divine, Divine, Divine and Mausoleum of Flowers. His poems and essays appear in The Academy of American Poets, Indiana Review, Columbia Journal, Obsidian, Inkwell, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. An Oakland native, Daniel lives in the Bay Area and is assistant professor of poetry at Santa Clara University.

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以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要：我首先想说：我们在雨中翩翩起舞。雨水如万花筒般色彩斑斓，从我们的背上激射而下，落在被运动鞋打得坑坑洼洼的水泥地上。没有音乐，只有我们满是水渍的脑袋里的蓝调，但无论如何，我们都在同步，无论如何，旋转，风随之而来--在这第 40 个夜晚，我们仍然无法撼动这场节拍风暴，所以我们与宙斯和他所有皮肤白皙的同胞作对，直到天空裂开足够大的缝隙，让光线透进来-- [第 1 页结束] 丹尼尔-B-夏姆希尔丹尼尔-B-夏姆希尔是一位诗人和散文家，曾获得鲍德温艺术奖（Baldwin for the Arts）和 "饮水洞 "奖（The Watering Hole）。他是蒙特雷县首届桂冠诗人，已出版两部诗集《神圣、神圣、神圣》和《花之陵》。他的诗歌和散文散见于《美国诗人学会》、《印第安纳评论》、《哥伦比亚杂志》、《黑曜石》、《墨水瓶》、《华尔街日报》等刊物。丹尼尔生于奥克兰，现居湾区，是圣克拉拉大学的诗歌助理教授。版权所有 © 2024 约翰斯-霍普金斯大学出版社 ...

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