Beauty
is a fat black woman
walking the fields
pressing a breezed
hibiscus
to her cheek
while the sun lights up
her feet

'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean' Gwendolyn Brooks
'The poems run naturally and economically off the tongue. Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols' poems preach disquiet' Observer