“is it treason to remember what we have done to deserve such villainy nothing we reassure ourselves nothing” PoetryEvilPoemGuiltInnocenceSeptember 119 11 Author:Lucille Clifton
“and this is not the time I think to ask who is allowed to be american america all of us gathered under one flag praying together safely warmed by the single love of the many tongued God” LoveGodAmericaPoetryPoemDiversityEqualitySeptember 11Americans9 11 Author:Lucille Clifton
“thunder and lightning and our world is another place no day will ever be the same no blood untouched” AmericaPoetryChangePoemSeptember 119 11Attacks Author:Lucille Clifton
“the st. marys river flows as if nothing has happened i watch it with my coffee afraid and sad as are we all so many ones to hate and i cursed with long memory cursed with the desire to understand have never been good at hating” PoetryHateFearUnderstandingSadnessPoemHatredSeptember 119 11 Author:Lucille Clifton
“and i am consumed with love for all of it the everydayness of bravery of hate of fear of tragedy of death and birth and hope” LovePoetryHateHopeFearPoemBraverySeptember 119 11 Author:Lucille Clifton
“i bear witness to no thing more human than hate i bear witness to no thing more human than love” LovePoetryHateHumanityPoemSeptember 119 11 Author:Lucille Clifton
