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# it was a dream
- URL: https://poetry101.love/it-was-a-dream/
- Published: 2023-08-30T18:31:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-22T07:13:54.000Z
- Description: by Lucille Clifton
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Lucille Clifton, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

in which my greater self  
rose up before me  
accusing me of my life  
with her extra finger  
whirling in a gyre of rage  
at what my days had come to.  
what,  
i pleaded with her, could i do,  
oh what could i have done?  
and she twisted her wild hair  
and sparked her wild eyes  
and screamed as long as  
i could hear her  
This. This. This.

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Clifton, Lucille. [The Book of Light](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%5FBook%5Fof%5FLight/yqkHdvMKTKoC?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Copper Canyon Press, 2013.