the terrible stories by Lucille Clifton

Author:Lucille Clifton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

what comes after this

water earth fire air

i can scarcely remember

gushing down through my mother

onto the family bed

but the dirt of eviction

is still there

and the burning bodies of men

i have tried to love

through the southern blinds

narrow memories enter the room

i had not counted on ice

nor clay nor the uncertain hiss

of an old flame water earth fire

it is always unexpected and

i wonder what is coming

after this whether it is air

or it is nothing

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blake

saw them glittering in the trees,

their quills erect among the leaves,

angels everywhere. we need new words

for what this is, this hunger entering our

loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays

of hope. we need the flutter that can save

us, something that will swirl across the face

of what we have become and bring us grace.

back north, i sit again in my own home

dreaming of blake, searching the branches

for just one poem.

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