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  • After the Flood
  • Lucille Clifton

here one islandof joywhere there were two

here three daughters sailinga four masted arkthrough an ocean of tears

i will tell you the truththis is neither beautifulnor just

still a God arrivesin a gyre of beespromising honey

still we dropto our knees as if

we were dry bone whispering

amen

it is what we doit is what we are [End Page 380]

Reprinted with permission from Alexia Clifton.

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