Monday, April 11, 2016

What the Mirror Said — National Poetry Month




What the Mirror Said

listen,
you a wonder.
you a city
of a woman.
you got a geography
of your own.
listen,
woman,
you not a noplace
anonymous
girl;
mister with his hands on you
he got his hands on
some
damn
body!


by Lucille Clifton
(read by Bill Murray)
courtesy Poets House

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