(June 27, 1936 - February 13, 2010 / Baltimore, Maryland)

poet Lucille Clifton
#138 on top 500 poets
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adam thinking

she
stolen from my bone
is it any wonder
i hunger to tunnel back
inside desperate
to reconnect the rib and clay
and to be whole again

some need is in me
struggling to roar through my
mouth into a name
this creation is so fierce
i would rather have been born

Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003

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  • * 1 diva thebossy (2/6/2009 1:37:00 PM)

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  • * 1 diva thebossy (2/6/2009 1:37:00 PM)

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