Lucille Clifton's "atlantic is a sea of bones" Poetry Moment

Lucille Clifton had a complicated relationship with the Atlantic Ocean. As an African-American woman, she said she was haunted by the slave trade conducted on those waters.
This Poetry Moment addresses the horrors of mothers traded as enslaved people from Africa to America.
In a 1984 recording, the National Book Award-winning poet reads her poem "atlantic is a sea of bones."
Shawn Sebastian Naar reads an introduction to offer context and background on the poet and the poem.
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Slavery proved that all members of our species must be created in the image of creator. Long after the moon was hung, in the perpetual motion system we call a universe, each of us in a freedom moment chose to magnify the Truth and Beauty of the process of creation or not. Each one of us without the Y chromosome shed our blood to deliver another generation to die having shared in the divine plan we suspect may be worth celebrating. Gathered under the wings of our Creator we choose to see or be ignorantly indifferent to suffering. We see how suffering comes about by the lure of a snaked person trespassing on the energy of others. We see and we testify that what we sow we must reap. No kidding🤷‍♀️⁉️. That is our mission: to share the wisdom we paid for in sin and sorrow and loss.