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# birth-day
- URL: https://poetry101.love/birth-day/
- Published: 2024-12-22T04:15:59.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-22T04:15:59.000Z
- Description: by Lucille Clifton
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Lucille Clifton, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

today we are possible.

the morning, green and laundry-sweet,  
opens itself and we enter  
blind and mewling.

everything waits for us:

the snow kingdom  
sparkling and silent  
in its glacial cap,

the cane fields  
shining and sweet  
in the sun-drenched south.

as the day arrives  
with all its clumsy blessings

what we will become  
waits in us like an ache.

Clifton, Lucille. [The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%5FCollected%5FPoems%5Fof%5FLucille%5FClifton%5F1/Oy1aDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, BOA Editions Limited, 2015.