Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton

Author:Lucille Clifton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2020-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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wishes for sons

i wish them cramps.

i wish them a strange town

and the last tampon.

i wish them no 7-11.

i wish them one week early

and wearing a white skirt.

i wish them one week late.

later i wish them hot flashes

and clots like you

wouldn’t believe. let the

flashes come when they

meet someone special.

let the clots come

when they want to.

let them think they have accepted

arrogance in the universe,

then bring them to gynecologists

not unlike themselves.

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How art thou fallen from Heaven

O Lucifer, son of the morning? …

  —Isaiah 14:12

oh where have you fallen to

son of the morning

beautiful lucifer

bringer of light

it is all shadow

in heaven without you

the cherubim sing

kaddish

 and even the

solitary brother

has risen from his seat

of stones he is holding

they say a wooden stick

and pointing toward

a garden

 light breaks

where no light was before

where no eye is prepared

to see

and animals rise up to walk

oh lucifer

what have you done

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