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LUCILLE CLIFTON lumpectomy eue all night I dream oflips that nursed and nursed and the lonely nipple lost in loss and the need to feed that turns at last on itself that will kill its body for its hunger's sake all night I hear the whispering the soft love calls you to this knife for love for love all night it is the one breast comforting the other Reprinted from Blessing the Boats: Neu; and Selected Poems 1988-2000, with permission ofauthor and Boa Editions, Ltd. ©2000 by Lucille Clifton. [Meridians:/eminism, race, transnationalism 2003, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 5]©2003 by Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. ...

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