Lucille and Toni

from Infinite Eagle by Saint and Kings

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written Aug. 23, 2019

It was a conversation with poet Lucille Clifton, in which Clifton revealed she conversed regularly with her deceased mother using a Ouija board, that triggered a strong identification for Morrison with her own out-of-body experience.

"One day, [Clifton's mother] said: 'Excuse me, I don't want to talk any more – I have something to do'," Morrison recalls, in wonderment at this unexpected message from beyond the grave. Places to go and people to meet even after you die. "I was absolutely struck."

That remembered sense of purposefulness in the afterlife – "something to do" – gave Morrison the freedom, she says, to write confidently about "dead people, ghosts or spirituality".

www.smh.com.au/entertainment/i-didnt-want-to-come-back-toni-morrison-on-life-death-and-desdemona-20150804-giqaxu.html

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Lucille told Toni she still regularly talks
to her mom who died some years ago
Toni said is that so
and how do you make it happen
Lucille said by Ouija board

Lucille said her mother has no sense
of time hopes she’ll have kids she’s already raised
Wanders away in mid-conversation
and makes excuses about necessary errands

Toni said she found it delightful to contemplate
No heavenly choir trapped in endless praise
Life after the life we live, a clock to be ignored
and duties to make sure we won’t be bored

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from Infinite Eagle, released November 25, 2020

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