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March 06, 2006
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This is a poem from Lucille Clifton, a writer in residence at St. Mary's College. The campus sits at the tip of the St. Mary's River, which slides into the tail end of the Potomac River in southern Maryland. I was not part of the poets and writers cult at the college and so I didn’t follow her obsessively but her poems remain nostalgic for reasons of context as well as content.
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that
Pointless Pontificatin | By jb | 05:24 AM
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Posted by: funke at March 10, 2006 10:25 AM