Lucille Clifton

Biography

Lucille Clifton (1936-2010), a three-time Pulitzer nominee and winner of the National Book Award in 2000 for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, was the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and children’s books.

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POETRY / Autumn 1982

My Dream About the Inevitability of the Second Coming

By Lucille Clifton

mary is an old woman without shoes.
she doesn’t believe it.
not when her belly starts to bubble