Adrienne Rich Poems (31 Poems)
Diving into the Wreck (Adrienne Rich Poems)
First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put on the body-armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask. I am having to do this … Continue reading
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They do not fear the men beneath the tree; They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the … Continue reading
Living In Sin (Adrienne Rich Poems)
She had thought the studio would keep itself; no dust upon the furniture of love. Half heresy, to wish the taps less vocal, the panes relieved of grime. A plate of pears, a piano with a Persian shawl, a cat … Continue reading
Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from that time, and play a Chopin prelude called by Cortot: “Delicious recollections float like perfume through the memory.” Your mind … Continue reading
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (Adrienne Rich Poems)
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips. The grammar turned and attacked me. Themes, written under duress. Emptiness of the notations. They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds. I want you to see this before I leave: … Continue reading
From an Atlas of the Difficult World (Adrienne Rich Poems)
I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this … Continue reading
Power (Adrienne Rich Poems)
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 … Continue reading
Integrity (Adrienne Rich Poems)
the quality of being complete; unbroken condition; entirety ~ Webster A wild patience has taken me this far as if I had to bring to shore a boat with a spasmodic outboard motor old sweaters, nets, spray-mottled books tossed in … Continue reading
Our Whole Life (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Our whole life a translation the permissible fibs and now a knot of lies eating at itself to get undone Words bitten thru words ~~ meanings burnt-off like paint under the blowtorch All those dead letters rendered into the oppressor’s … Continue reading
Miracle Ice Cream (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Miracle’s truck comes down the little avenue, Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls, and, yes, you can feel happy with one piece of your heart. Take what’s still given: in a room’s rich shadow a woman’s breasts swinging … Continue reading
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