The Daily Boost #635

Running into a new year

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i am running into a new year
Lucille Clifton

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twentysix and thirtysix
even thirtysix but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me


(from Good Woman: Poems and A Memoir 1969-1980)

(My thanks to Lucille Clifton, via New York State Writers Institute.)

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