Thought for the Day

i am running into a new year /

and i beg what i love and /

i leave to forgive me.

~ Lucille Clifton

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Quoted from Lucille Clifton, "I am running into a new year" in The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (ed. Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser), BOA Editions, 2012, page 158

Lucille Clifton, 1936-2010, Award-Winning American Poet, Writer, Educator; Poet Laureate of Maryland, 1979-1985

Reginald Dwayne Betts, "In Praise of Lucille Clifton", The New York Times, October 2, 2019