<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450265" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shapeshifter Poems</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the legend is whispered<br>in the women's tent<br>how the moon when she rises<br>full<br>follows some men into themselves<br>and changes them there<br>the season is short<br>but dreadful shapeshifters<br>they wear strange hands<br>they walk through the houses<br>at night their daughters<br>do not know them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who is there to protect her<br>from the hands of the father<br>not the windows which see and<br>say nothing not the moon<br>that awful eye not the woman<br>she will become with her<br>scarred tongue who who who the owl<br>laments into the evening who<br>will protect her this prettylittlegirl</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3</div><div style="margin:10px 0">if the little girl lies<br>still enough<br>shut enough<br>hard enough<br>shapeshifter may not<br>walk tonight<br>the full moon may not<br>find him here<br>the hair on him<br>bristling<br>rising<br>up</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> the poem at the end of the world<br>is the poem the little girl breathes<br>into her pillow the one<br>she cannot tell the one<br>there is no one to hear this poem<br>is a political poem is a war poem is a<br>universal poem but is not about<br>these things this poem<br>is about one human heart this poem<br>is the poem at the end of the world</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=450265" data-title="Shapeshifter Poems de Lucille Clifton" data-description="1 the legend is whispered in the women's tent how the moon when she rises full follows some men into themselves and changes them there the season is short but dreadful shapeshifters they wear strange hands they walk through the houses at night th..."></div> </div> </div>

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