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      August 18, 2022UntitledLucille Clifton

      surely I am able to write poems
      celebrating grass and how the blue
      in the sky can flow green or red
      and the waters lean against the
      chesapeake shore like familiar
      love poems about nature and landscape
      surely but whenever I begin
      “the trees wave their knotted branches
      and …” god
      there is always under that poem
      an other poem

      from #18 - Winter 2002

      Lucille Clifton

      “I never thought about being a poet, because I never saw anybody like me that was, or that could be. I never thought about being published. That wasn’t among the things that were possible for me at that time. And still my way of expressing myself, I discovered, was through poems. I wrote answers to Emily Dickinson. I wrote sonnets. But I’ve never been good at titles so they were ‘Sonnets the First,’ ‘Sonnets the Second,’ and so forth. I learned how to write poems. I wrote my way toward figuring out, and read my way as well.”

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