won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up’
Lucille Clifton
from ‘won’t you celebrate with me,’ Book of Light, Copper Canyon Press (1993).
Lucille Clifton, award-winning poet, died on 13 February, aged 73.
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