Copyright © 2011 by Claudia Rankine. Used with permission of the author.

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Poems by This Author

Don't Let Me Be Lonely [There was a time] by Claudia Rankine There was a time I could say no one I knew well had died Don’t Let Me Be Lonely [On the bus two women argue] by Claudia Rankine On the bus two women argue about whether Rudy Giuliani had to kneel The End of the Alphabet [Difficult to pinpoint] by Claudia Rankine Difficult to pinpoint After David Hammons by Claudia Rankine In the darkened moment a body gifted with the blue light of a flashlight