Next by Lucille Clifton

Author:Lucille Clifton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

morning mirror

my mother her sad eyes worn as bark

faces me in the mirror. my mother

whose only sin was dying, whose only

enemy was time, frowns in the glass.

once again she has surprised me

in an echo of her life but

my mother refuses to be reflected;

thelma whose only strength was love,

warns away the glint of likeness,

the woman is loosened in the mirror and

thelma lucille begins her day.

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the death of crazy horse

9/5/1877

age 35

in the hills where the hoop

of the world

bends to the four directions

WakanTanka has shown me

the path men walk is shadow.

i was a boy when i saw it,

that long hairs and grey beards

and myself

must enter the dream to be real.

so i dreamed and i dreamed

and i endured.

i am the final war chief.

never defeated in battle.

Lakotah, remember my name.

now on this walk my bones

and my heart

are warm in the hands of my father.

WakanTanka has shown me the shadows

will break

near the creek called Wounded Knee.

remember my name, Lakotah.

i am the final war chief.

father, my heart,

never defeated in battle,

father, my bones,

never defeated in battle,

leave them at Wounded Knee

and remember our name. Lakotah.

i am released from shadow.

my horse dreams and dances under me

as i enter the actual world.

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