![]() ![]() ![]() Although Clifton’s poetry was recognized in her lifetime - she was nominated twice for the Pulitzer and served as poet laureate of Maryland - I don’t think she was recognized enough. Lucille Clifton is one of our Take Your Poet to Work icons. The rocks to the right fade into the green waves, which will stop crashing as the boat reaches deeper water, and the water turns to blue, and the blue will be blessed by the sun (rising or setting, the painting doesn’t say). I can put myself in two places simultaneously: the person in the boat, about to sail away (the one being blessed), and also the person on the shore, about to wave goodbye (the one giving the blessing). For my parents, it symbolized the Chilean sea where they first kissed. ![]() Forever after, Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats” will be associated with the last thing I took from my dad’s house - a painting titled “Nosotros” by L.Y. ![]()
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