The second poem in our poetry club is "cutting greens" by Lucille Clifton. We talked about this poem in class on Monday, October 11.Click here to read Ms. Clifton's poem on poets.org. You can visit the poem on poets.org by clicking on the title (below).
| cutting greens | ||
| by Lucille Clifton curling them around i hold their bodies in obscene embrace thinking of everything but kinship. collards and kale strain against each strange other away from my kissmaking hand and the iron bedpot. the pot is black. the cutting board is black, my hand, and just for a minute the greens roll black under the knife, and the kitchen twists dark on its spine and i taste in my natural appetite the bond of live things everywhere. From An Ordinary Woman by Lucille Clifton published by Random House. Copyright © 1974 Lucille Clifton. Used with permission. | ||
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