poem endings

#lucille clifton

There is a girl inside. 
She is randy as a wolf. 
She will not walk away and leave these bones 
to an old woman.

She is a green tree in a forest of kindling. 
She is a greeen girl in a used poet.

She has waited patient as a nun 
for the second coming, 
when she can break through gray hairs 
into blossom

and her lovers will harvest 
honey and thyme 
and the woods will be wild 
with the damn wonder of it. 

- Lucille Clifton

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