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my poem

a love person

from love people

out of the afrikan sun

under the sign of cancer.

whoever see my

midnight smile

seeing star apple and

mango from home.

whoever take me for

a negative thing,

his death be on him

like a skin

and his skin

be his heart’s revenge.

 

*


lucy one-eye

she got her mama’s ways.

big round roller

can’t cook

can’t clean

if that’s what you want

you got it world.

 

lucy one-eye

she see the world sideways.

word foolish

she say what she don’t want

to say, she don’t say

what she want to.

 

lucy one-eye

she won’t walk away

from it.

she’ll keep on trying

with her crooked look

and her wrinkled ways,

the darling girl.

 

*


if mama

could see

she would see

lucy sprawling

limbs of lucy

decorating the

backs of chairs

lucy hair

holding the mirrors up

that reflect odd

aspects of lucy.

 

if mama

could hear

she would hear

lucysong rolled in the

corners like lint

exotic webs of lucysighs

long lucy spiders explaining

to obscure gods.

 

if mama

could talk

she would talk

good girl

good girl

good girl

clean up your room.

 

*


i was born in a hotel,

a maskmaker.

my bones were knit by

a perilous knife.

my skin turned around

at midnight and

i entered the earth in

a woman jar.

i learned the world all

wormside up

and this is my yes

my strong fingers;

i was born in a bed of

good lessons

and it has made me

wise.

 

*


light

on my mother’s tongue

breaks through her soft

extravagant hip

into life.

lucille

she calls the light,

which was the name

of the grandmother

who waited by the crossroads

in virginia

and shot the whiteman off his horse,

killing the killer of sons.

light breaks from her life

to her lives…

 

mine already is

an afrikan name.

 


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Lucille

Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010)[1] was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she …
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