Lucille Clifton




homage to my hips

these big hips are big hips
they need space to
move around in.
the don’t fit into little
petty  places, these hips
are free hips.
they don’t like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips
these hips are magic hips.
I have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top!