Nikki Giovanni

I am now getting into a lot of Nikki Giovanni's poetry. It is beautiful. She's got a way with words..I especially like this poem right now:

The Butterfly

those things
which you so laughingly call
hands are in fact two
brown butterflies fluttering
across the pleasure
they give
my body



This poem is short but she does an excellent job of comparing a person's touch with butterflies. I just love it. This is something I would like to do better in my own poetry!