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Blessing the Boats

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From New Poems (2000), "the times"

From New Poems (2000), "signs"

From New Poems (2000), "moonchild"

From New Poems (2000), "dialysis"

From New Poems (2000), "donor"

From New Poems (2000), "libation"

From New Poems (2000), "jasper texas 1998"

From New Poems (2000), "Alabama 9/15/63"

From New Poems (2000), "what i think when i ride the train"

From New Poems (2000), "praise song"

From New Poems (2000), "august"

From New Poems (2000), "study the masters"

From New Poems (2000), "lazarus, first day"

From New Poems (2000), "lazarus, second day"

From New Poems (2000), "lazarus, third day"

From New Poems (2000), "birthday 1999"

From New Poems (2000), "grief"

From New Poems (2000), "report from the angel of eden"

From next (1988), "album"

From next (1988), "why some people be mad at me sometimes"

From next (1988), "sorrow song"

From next (1988), "female"

From next (1988), "my dream about being white"

From next (1988), "my dream about the cows"

From next (1988), "my dream about time"

From next (1988), "my dream about falling"

From next (1988), "my dream about the second coming"

From next (1988), "my dream about God"

From next (1988), "my dream about the poet"

From next (1988), "the death of thelma sales"

From next (1988), "lives"

From next (1988), "the message of thelma sayles"

From next (1988), "the death of fred clifton"

From next (1988), "shapeshifter poems"

From quilting (1991), "quilting"

From quilting (1991), "white lady"

From quilting (1991), "the birth of language"

From quilting (1991), "sleeping beauty"

From quilting (1991), "poem in praise of menstruation"

From quilting (1991), "peeping tom"

From quilting (1991), "wild blessings"

From quilting (1991), "photograph"

From quilting (1991), "lot's wife 1988"

From quilting (1991), "poem to my uterus"

From quilting (1991), "to my last period"

From quilting (1991), "wishes for sons"

From quilting (1991), "How art though fallen From Heaven/O Lucifer, son of the Morning?..."

From quilting (1991), "remembering the birth of lucifer"

From quilting (1991), "whispered to lucifer"

From quilting (1991), "eve's version"

From quilting (1991), "lucifer understanding at last"

From quilting (1991), "the garden of delight"

From quilting (1991), "adam thinking"

From quilting (1991), "eve thinking"

From quilting (1991), "the story thus far"

From quilting (1991), "lucifer speaks in his own voice"

From quilting (1991), "blessing the boats"

From the book of light (1993), "imagining bear"

From the book of light (1993), "the women you are accustomed to"

From the book of light (1993), "song at midnight"

From the book of light (1993), "here yet be dragons"

From the book of light (1993), "the yeti poet returns to his village to tell his story"

From the book of light (1993), "crabbing (the poet crab speaks)"

From the book of light (1993), "the earth is a living thing"

From the book of light (1993), "if i should"

From the book of light (1993), "further note to clark"

From the book of light (1993), "final note to clark"

From the book of light (1993), "note, passed to superman"

From the book of light (1993), "leda 1"

From the book of light (1993), "leda 2"

From the book of light (1993), "leda 3"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 1"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 2"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 3"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 4"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 5"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 6"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 7"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "telling our Stories"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "fox"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "the coming of fox"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "dear fox"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "leaving fox"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "one year later"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "a dream of foxes"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "amazons"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "lumpectomy eve"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "1994"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "hag riding"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "rust"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "slaveships"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "memphis"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "memory"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "what did she know, when did she know it"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "lorena"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "heaven"

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From next (1988), "lives" Summary

This poem plays with the concept of previous incarnation, previous lives. It speaks from the point of view of someone answering a friend or client who has inquired about past lives; the subtitle indicates that the questioner is named "lu."

In the first stanza, the poet addresses lu and tells her she was in a past life, a simple fisherman who worked hard all his life but still didn't make ends meet. His son was swimming, in trouble, close to drowning, and the fisherman swam toward him, trying to rescue him, but drowned.

In the second stanza, lu was a doctor, resentful, living in an unpleasantly cold climate. This doctor turned his or her bitterness into hate and criminality, to murder, eventually being punished by death for the crimes.

The final verse pokes a little fun at people who think they were great and royal in their past lives. Clifton...
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