Poets in their bassinet
Lucille Clifton

Poets in their bassinets 
dream a splendid woman holding over their eyes
a globe, shining with
possibility. Someone,
she smiles, has to see this
and report it, and they 
in their innocence 
believing that all will be 
as beautiful as she is,
whimper use me, use me
and oh how terrifying 
that she does. 

Lucill Clifton was a poet and the author of numerous collections,
she won the National Book Award, chancellor of the Academy
of American Poets. She died on February 13, 2010.