i need to know their names <br />those women i would have walked with <br />jauntily the way men go in groups <br />swinging their arms, and the ones <br />those sweating women whom i would have joined <br />after a hard game to chew the fat <br />what would we have called each other laughing <br />joking into our beer? where are my gangs, <br />my teams, my mislaid sisters? <br />all the women who could have known me, <br />where in the world are their names?<br /><br />Lucille Clifton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lost-women/
