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TO MERLE by LUCILLE CLIFTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SAY SKINNY MANNYSIDED TALL ON THE BALL
Last Line: LET ME CALL YOU SISTER, SISTER, %I BEEN WAITING FOR YOU
Subject(s): SISTERS; WOMEN;

Poem Sources:

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



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