Poetry Sunday (5/12/24 edition)

 

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There is a Girl Inside 

by Lucille Clifton

there is a girl inside, 
she is randy as a wolf.
she will not walk away
and leave these bones
to an old woman.

she is a green tree
in a forest of kindling.
she is a green girl
in a used poet.

she has waited
patient as a nun
for the second coming,
when she can break through gray hairs
into blossom.

and her lovers will harvest
honey and thyme
and the woods will be wild
with the damn wonder of it.