Because I keep running into her Collected Poems and regretting every time I don’t buy it. When that birthday comes, this is at the top of the list.
sometimes we hear them in our dreams
rattling their skulls clicking their bony fingers
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Elizabeth O'Connell-Thompson 
“who would believe they could be / beautiful”
I have been surprised by how sweet sorrow can be.
I had never heard of Lucille Clifton before (because I’m still a poetry dunce), but I love this poem. I shall write her name on a post-it note and go looking for more of her poems when night falls (which is when I most want to read poetry, for some reason).
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You’re not a dunce in anything, but I do think you’ll like her because she is an ultimate sass master.
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