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[confused-but-present-blog]

Best poem ever written. Concince me otherwise.

[kingoverthinking]

Power

Living in the earth-depositis 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

-Adrianne Rich

[guillermohaiku]

Day 26 of 32 Days of Yoga

Brrr! 5°F... but yoga feels so much better when I bike to the studio. :) And this poem was on my mind:

Delta

  If you have taken this rubble for my past

raking though it for fragments you could sell

know that I long ago moved on

deeper into the heart of the matter/

  If you think you can grasp me, think again:

my story flows in more than one direction

a delta springing from the riverbed

with its five fingers spread

  ~ Adrienne Rich, from Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988