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My Girls - 2. To My Girls
Music by Gwyneth Walker
Poetry by Lucille Clifton

TEXT:
my girls
my girls
my almost me
mellowed in a brown bag
held tight and straining
at the top
like a good lunch
until the bag turned weak and wet
and burst in our honeymoon rooms.
we wiped the mess and
dressed you in our name and
here you are
my girls
my girls
forty quick fingers
reaching for the door.

i command you to be
good runners
to go with grace
go well in the dark and
make for the high ground
my dearest girls
my girls
my more than me.

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Recorded Live our February 2023 program titled "Wielding the Word"
Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Pleasant Hill CA
Video Editor: Kent Kessinger

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