Poetry Friday: Lucille Clifton

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This week, I turned to Lucille Clifton's words for comfort. Her poem "my dream about time" captures the frustration, fear, and anger so many women are feeling right now.lucillemy dream about timeBy Lucille Clifton

a woman unlike myself is running
down the long hall of a lifeless house
with too many windows which open on
a world she has no language for,
running and running until she reaches
at last the one and only door
which she pulls open to find each wall
is faced with clocks and as she watches
all of the clocks strike
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Listen to Clifton reading this poem at The Poetry Foundation.
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The contest to win my home-made Poetry Prompt Jar will run through the NCTE Conference. I'll draw a winner on Monday, 11/21. Find out more and enter here.
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