<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450248" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Climbing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">a woman precedes me up the long rope.<br>her dangling braids the color of rain.<br>maybe i should have had braids.<br>maybe i should have kept the body i started,<br>slim and possible as a boy's bone.<br>maybe i should have wanted less.<br>maybe i should have ignored the bowl in me<br>burning to be filled.<br>maybe i should have wanted less.<br>the woman passes the notch in the rope<br>marked Sixty. I rise toward it, struggling,<br>hand over hungry hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lucille+Clifton">Lucille Clifton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450248" data-title="Climbing de Lucille Clifton" data-description="a woman precedes me up the long rope. her dangling braids the color of rain. maybe i should have had braids. maybe i should have kept the body i started, slim and possible as a boy's bone. maybe i should have wanted less. maybe i should have ignor..."></div> </div> </div>

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