Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000

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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Copper Canyon Press for permission to reprint poems from the book of light, Copyright © 1993 by Lucille Clifton.
Two lines from House of Light by Mary Oliver. Copyright © 1990 by Mary Oliver. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
far memory
a poem in seven parts
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
what i can promise to be is water,
water plain and direct as Niagara.
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
the question for me is
how long can i cling to this edge?
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
the question for you is
what have you ever traveled toward
more than your own safety?
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
bare smooth
as a buttock
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
adam thinking
she
stolen from my bone
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
this creation is so fierce
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
i would rather have been born
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
eve thinking
it is wild country here
brothers and sisters coupling
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