“Summer,’’ by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1573
“This could be a good day. It starts
without you, as usual; you haven’t seen
dawn for years. By noon it hits half-
boiling & the air breaks down….’’
—From “Whatever You Want,’’ by Kevin Young (born 1970), a New England-educated poet and director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
