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“It Was a Dream” by Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010)


“…whirling in a gyre of rage
at what my days had come to.
what, 
i pleaded with her, could i do,
oh what could i have done?”


It Was a Dream

BY LUCILLE CLIFTON

in which my greater self
rose up before me
accusing me of my life
with her extra finger
whirling in a gyre of rage
at what my days had come to.
what,
i pleaded with her, could i do,
oh what could i have done?
and she twisted her wild hair
and sparked her wild eyes
and screamed as long as
i could hear her
This. This. This.

By TDarris

Thinker. Reader. Writer--- of, and about, a plethora of things.

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