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