Dear Darkness Quotes

“How I would sing

like a kettle to keep you”
― Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems

“Like God
Gumbo is hard
to get right

& I don't bother
asking for it outside
my mother's house.
Like life, there's no one

way to do it,
& a hundred ways,
from here to Sunday,
to get it dead wrong.”
― Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems

“Daylight Savings"

Like the money the light
doesn't go

as far these days”
― Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems

“It’s getting harder
to live without
faith, or you,
or whatever
we choose to call
what calls
to us in the quiet.

— Kevin Young, from “Book Rate,” Dear Darkness: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)”
― Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems