On a trip last week with my mother and daughter--amidst all the background noise of thoughtless politicians threatening to shut down our government--we stopped to visit my niece at St. Mary's College in Maryland. This poem by Lucille Clifton, printed on a wall in the Campus Center, stopped me (and silenced all that noise).
blessing the boats
by Lucille Clifton
(at St. Mary's)
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back--may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that
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I did not see the poem down there. Does Colleen know you have written this?
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