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Let there be new flowering

Lucille Clifton
A bright red poster features the poem Let there be new flowering by Lucille Clifton written in white text. The poster is decorated with two yellow flowers and a yellow patch resembling a splotch of paint.

let there be new flowering
in the fields let the fields
turn mellow for the men
let the men keep tender
through the time let the time
be wrested from the war
let the war be won
let love be
at the end





"Let there be new flowering" from good woman: poems and a memoir 1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 1987. Reprinted with the permission of BOA Editions, Ltd.

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