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# blessing the boats
- URL: https://poetry101.love/blessing-the-boats/
- Published: 2023-07-22T22:31:41.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-22T22:31:41.000Z
- Description: by Lucille Clifton
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Lucille Clifton, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

(at St. Mary's)  
  
may the tide  
that is entering even now  
the lip of our understanding  
carry you out  
beyond the face of fear  
may you kiss  
the wind then turn from it  
certain that it will  
love your back may you  
open your eyes to water  
water waving forever  
and may you in your innocence  
sail through this to that