Biography
There is a bat
In Chile named
Micronyteris giovanniae
Dr. Robert Baker named it
After me. He discovered it
While studying bats
And thought the big ears
Were just like me
Maybe if the bat wrote
She would be
A poet
There is a plaque
In Lincoln Heights
Where I went
To school
And a Plaque
In Knoxville
Across the street
Where my grandparents lived
I’m also lucky
To have awards and daydreams
Or is that
Daydreams
And Awards
And I’m lucky to be happy
At what I do
And how I do it
So that is this
Bio
I’m here
And if I mist
On emotional soil
A weed will
Grow
Make Me Rain
Let me be a part
Of this needed change
Nikki Giovanni, "Biography" from Make Me Rain. Copyright © 2020 by Nikki Giovanni. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc..
