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POEM ON MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER WHO DIED YOUNG by LUCILLE CLIFTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WELL I HAVE ALMOST COME TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU FELL
Last Line: RUNNING LIKE HELL AND IF I FALL %I FALL
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS - WOMEN; DEATH; MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS;

Poem Sources:

GOOD WOMAN; POEMS AND A MEMOIR 1969-1980.
  CLIFTON, LUCILLE
  (1987)
 



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