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 ...
Adrienne Rich Poems (31 Poems)
November 1968 (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Stripped you're beginning to float free up through the smoke of brushfires and incinerators the unleafed branches won't hold you ...
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 ...
Implosions (Adrienne Rich Poems)
The world's not wanton only wild and wavering I wanted to choose words that even you would have to be ...
In Those Years (Adrienne Rich Poems)
In those years, people will say, we lost track of the meaning of we, of you we found ourselves reduced ...
My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts (Adrienne Rich Poems)
My mouth hovers across your breasts in the short grey winter afternoon in this bed we are delicate and touch ...
Prospective Immigrants Please Note (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. If you go through there is always ...
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff (Adrienne Rich Poems)
The autumn feels slowed down, summer still holds on here, even the light seems to last longer than it should ...
Victory (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Something spreading underground won't speak to us under skin won't declare itself not all life-forms want dialogue with the machine-gods ...
Burning Oneself Out (Adrienne Rich Poems)
We can look into the stove tonight as into a mirror, yes, the serrated log, the yellow-blue gaseous core the ...
For the Dead (Adrienne Rich Poems)
I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would ...
Cartographies of Silence (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1. A conversation begins with a lie. and each speaker of the so-called common language feels the ice-floe split, the ...
In A Classroom (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Talking of poetry, hauling the books arm-full to the table where the heads bend or gaze upward, listening, reading aloud, ...
Final Notions (Adrienne Rich Poems)
It will not be simple, it will not take long It will take little time, it will take all your ...
Stepping Backward (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Good-by to you whom I shall see tomorrow, Next year and when I'm fifty; still good-by. This is the leave ...
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 ...
From a Survivor (Adrienne Rich Poems)
The pact that we made was the ordinary pact of men & women in those days I don't know who ...
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 ...
Moving in Winter (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Their life, collapsed like unplayed cards, is carried piecemeal through the snow; Headboard and footboard now, the bed where she ...
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 ...
Two Songs (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1. Sex, as they harshly call it, I fell into this morning at ten o'clock, a drizzling hour of traffic ...
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 ...
Orion (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Far back when I went zig-zagging through tamarack pastures you were my genius, you my cast-iron Viking, my helmed lion-heart ...
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. ...
For the Record (Adrienne Rich Poems)
The clouds and the stars didn't wage this war the brooks gave no information if the mountain spewed stones of ...
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 ...
Planetarium (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Thinking of Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), astronomer, sister of William; and others. A woman in the shape of a monster a ...
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 ...
Rural Reflections (Adrienne Rich Poems)
This is the grass your feet are planted on. You paint it orange or you sing it green, But you ...
Integrity (Adrienne Rich Poems)
the quality of being complete; unbroken condition; entirety ~ Webster A wild patience has taken me this far as if ...