Lucille Clifton

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    bright cruciforms against the sky
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    especially in the ohs she uses, it’s a new gospel I hear …she’s laughing. a lo
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    since the poems are lyrical,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    among the pines, to the snow forever falling and
    the long dark bringing its constellations,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    and the sky pouts back,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    to black poets
    just cause you don’t see me
    don’t mean i aint there.
    when you be together
    reading
    and being together
    and you feel something soft
    rubbing you just like sisterskin
    don’t turn off please,
    thats me.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    you will be
    dressed in blood
    rise up
    and wobble off
    toward cavalry
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    another raccoon dead, his tail raised high
    like a flagpole.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    i have been hated for it,
    laughed at,
    i have cried, me and my
    black yes.
    affirmation.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    running through virginia fields
    will be again a dream.
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