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I AM RUNNING INTO A NEW YEAR by LUCILLE CLIFTON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: AND I BEG WHAT I LOVE AND %I LEAVE TO FORGIVE ME
Subject(s): AGING; BIRTHDAYS; HOLIDAYS; MATURITY; NEW YEAR;

Poem Sources:

GOOD WOMAN; POEMS AND A MEMOIR 1969-1980.
  CLIFTON, LUCILLE
  (1987)