Trying to make sense of events out of my control is an unwelcome weight on my mind. It clogs the flow of inspiration and ripples nervousness everywhere. When I feel the stagnation of worry, I turn to poetry to lead me back with words that ring clear through uncertainty reminding me of all that is possible. • “birth-day” by Lucille Clifton today we are possible. the morning, green and laundry-sweet, opens itself and we enter blind and mewling. everything waits for us: the snow kingdom sparkling and silent in its glacial cap, the cane fields shining and sweet in the sun-drenched south. as the day arrives with all its clumsy blessings what we will become waits in us like an ache. • #todaywearepossible #lucilleclifton #handmade #blackartist #blackpoet #poetry #madeinbrooklyn #madeinnyc #pennant #guncontrol #mybodymychoice #poem