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let there be new flowering Lucille Clifton

 
let there be new flowering
 in the fields let the fields
 turn mellow for the men
 let the men keep tender
 through the time let the time
 be wrested from the war
 let the war be won
 let love be
 at the end

From good woman: poems and a memoir, 1969-1980
Copyright © 1987 by Lucille Clifton
Reprinted with the permission of BOA Editions

 
 


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