Danez Smith is very good with their words; they utilize so many different structures in such amazing ways. This was an amazing collection. Some of my favorite lines: "i i did not come to preach of peace for that’s not the hunted’s duty.", "i know it’s foolish to compare. what advice do the drowned have for the burned? what gossip is there between the hanged & the buried?", and "a prison is a plantation made of stone & steel".