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| 2091. | Browning Decides To Be A Poet by Jorge Luis Borges | | in these red labyrinths of London
I find that I have chosen
the strangest of all callings,
save that, in its way, any calling is strange.
Like the... |
| 2092. | Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law by Adrienne Rich | | 1
You, once a belle in Shreveport,
with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud,
still have your dresses copied fr... |
| 2093. | Power by Adrienne Rich | | 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... |
| 2094. | Prospective Immigrants Please Note by Adrienne Rich | | Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things... |
| 2095. | Stepping Backward by Adrienne Rich | | Good-by to you whom I shall see tomorrow,
Next year and when I'm fifty; still good-by.
This is the leave we never really take.
If you were dead or ... |
| 2096. | Planetarium by Adrienne Rich | | Thinking of Caroline Herschel (1750-1848),
astronomer, sister of William; and others.
A woman in the shape of a monster
a monster in the shape o... |
| 2097. | Implosions by Adrienne Rich | | The world's
not wanton
only wild and wavering
I wanted to choose words that even you
would have to be changed by
Take the word
of my pulse, ... |
| 2098. | Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff by Adrienne Rich | | The autumn feels slowed down,
summer still holds on here, even the light
seems to last longer than it should
or maybe I'm using it to the thin edge... |
| 2099. | Cartographies of Silence by Adrienne Rich | | 1.
A conversation begins
with a lie. and each
speaker of the so-called common language feels
the ice-floe split, the drift apart
as if po... |
| 2100. | My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke | | The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Sl... |
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