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I've always pictured my own death
as a closed door,
a black room,
a breathless leap from the mountain top
with time to throw out my arms, lift my head,
and see, in the instant my heart stops,
a whole galaxy of blue.
I imagined I'd forget,
in the cessation of feeling,
while the guilt of my lifetime floated away
like a nylon nightgown,
and that I'd fall into clean, fresh forgiveness.

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Juneteenth: when the Negro telegraph
reached the last sad slave...

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Being black in America
was the Original Catch,
so no one was surprised
by 22.

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Miracles happen all the time.
We're here, aren't we?

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Marilyn Nelson

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Born: April 26, 1946 (age 78)
Bio: Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator and children's book author. She is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks. From 1978 to 1994 she wrote books as Marilyn Nelson Waniek.
Known for:
  1. Carver: A Life in Poems (1997)
  2. A Wreath for Emmett Till (2005)
  3. How I Discovered Poetry (2014)
  4. Fortune's bones (2004)

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