This poem is taken from the book Love to Langston by Tony Medina, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
A Bag of Oranges
A bag of oranges is
What she brings me
With a great big dimply grin
Sweet as a georgia peach
Come to see me on my death bed
With her hand outstretched
Palm up, orange big and bright as the sun
As if death to her is a new day
She brings the sun!
That child
Makes the pain of my illness
Go away
This day
Dear sweet alice walker
One of my favorite young writers
Brings me a bag of oranges
Brings me oranges like
A bag of sun
