Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Lucille Clifton
note: I will be offline for the next two weeks--time to visit San Francisco again (plus Monterey). I'll be back in early March.
Be well and enjoy the coming days.
Lucille Clifton, one of our wisest and most beloved poets, died recently. Here is one of her poems:
we are running
running and
time is clocking us
from the edge like an only
daughter.
our mothers stream before us,
cradling their breasts in their
hands.
oh pray that what we want
is worth this running,
pray that what we,re running
toward
is what we want.
Lucille Clifton
