I was so sorry to hear about Lucille Clifton passing away...

I was so sorry to hear about Lucille Clifton passing away. She was one of my favorite poets, and her use of persona has always been terrific - she uses the voices of everyone from Leda to Satan. I like almost everything in the Book of Light, but here are two great persona poems:

adam thinking

she
stolen from my bone
is it any wonder
i hunger to tunnel back
inside desperate
to reconnect the rib and clay
and to be whole again

some need is in me
struggling to roar through my
mouth into a name
this creation ...