Poem: “Little Prayer”

By Danez Smith

let ruin end here

let him find honey
where there was once a slaughter 

Danez Smith, “little prayer” from Don’t Call Us Dead. Copyright © 2017 by Danez Smith. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc. on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN, www.graywolfpress.org.

let him enter the lion’s cage
& find a field of lilacs

let this be the healing     
& if not     let it be