Burning Oneself Out – The Poetry Monster

A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)

We can look into the stove tonight

as into a mirror, yes,

the serrated log, the yellow-blue gaseous core

the crimson-flittered grey ash, yes.

I know inside my eyelids

and underneath my skin

Time takes hold of us like a draft

upward, drawing at the heats

in the belly, in the brain

You told me of setting your hand

into the print of a long-dead Indian

and for a moment, I knew that hand,

that print, that rock,

the sun producing powerful dreams

A word can do this

or, as tonight, the mirror of the fire

of my mind, burning as if it could go on

burning itself, burning down

feeding on everything

till there is nothing in life

that has not fed that fire

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Poor Mailie’s Elegy by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Poem on Sensibility by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Pegasus at Wanlockhead by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Paraphrase of the First Psalm by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
One Night as I did Wander by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
On Glenriddell’s Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Oh Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Ode on the Departed Regency Bill by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Ode for General Washington’s Birthday by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton by Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.

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