Desesperanto by Marilyn Hacker

Author:Marilyn Hacker [Hacker, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2003-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

Half the closet, half the drawers were empty.

Who was gone this time?

Grief is isolationist, short-viewed. Grief lacks empathy, compassion, imagination; reads accounts of massacres, floods and earthquakes mired in one story.

Grief is individual, bourgeois, common and banal, two womens exchange in Sunday market: “Le mari de Germaine est mort.” They fill bags with apples.

Grief is primagravida, in her fifth month.

Now she knows the fetus has died inside her.

Now she crosses shopping-streets on a sun-shot mid-winter morning.

Winter licks the marrow from streets that open onto parks and boulevards, rivers, river-parallel parkways, arteries to bridges, interstates, airports.

Grief daubs kohl on middle-aged burning eyelids.

Grief drives miles not noticing if the highway runs beside an ocean, abandoned buildings or blackened wheatfields

—and, in fact, she’s indoors. Although her height is average, massive furniture blocks and crowds her: oak and pine, warm gold in their grain she thought would ransom her season.

Workmen clear a path to repair the windows, not with panes of light on their backs, no message-

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