Because it’s LucilleCilfton o’clock plus a @GeeBrunswick tweet triggered me and some triggers are goooood!
the lost women
i need to know their names
those women i would have walked with
jauntily the way men go in groups
swinging their arms, and the ones
those sweating women whom i would have joined
after a hard game to chew the fat
what would we have called each other laughing
joking into our beer? where are my gangs,
my teams, my mislaid sisters?
all the women who could have known me,
where in the world are their names?— by Lucille Clifton
Source: Poets.org
Lucille Clifton’s poems are all powerful and readable even by those who think they do not like poetry.
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