A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Living in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
for living on this earth in the winters of this climate.
Today I was reading about Marie Curie:
she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness
her body bombarded for years by the element
she had purified
It seems she denied to the end
the source of the cataracts on her eyes
the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends
till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source as her power.
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- Николай Глазков – Последний зимний
- On An Eclipse Of The Moon by Walter Savage Landor
- Вера Звягинцева – Не пастушка и не Психея
- Николай Карамзин – Меланхолия
- Song of Poplars poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Answer To A Sonnet By J.H.Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Who Is This? by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Merchant of Copan [In English and Spanish]
- The Furies by Weldon Kees
- Helen all Alone by Rudyard Kipling
- Новелла Матвеева – Есть вопиющий быт, есть вещие примеры
- Николай Гумилев – Какое отравное зелье
- The Death Of Huss poem – Alfred Austin
- A Rustic Seat Near The Sea by William Lisle Bowles
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 72. Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.