I am not a big reader of poetry so I feel quite out of my depth. These collections just feel strong though, grappling with a world full of violence against black bodies, discussing being gay, and being HIV positive. Full of moments far outside my experience and yet reading them, the ground shook. Most of all I’m going to be forever thinking about their poem Genesissy, which imagines God in the next week after the Genesis creation myth, being fierce and grieving for the way humanity will come to disparage his queer children.⁣