An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich

Author:Adrienne Rich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

1990–1991

II

SHE

goes through what must be gone through:

that catalogue she is pitching out

mildew spores velvet between the tiles

soft hairs, nests, webs

in corners, edges of basins, in the teeth

of her very comb. All that rots or rusts

in a night, a century.

Balances memory, training, sits in her chair

hairbrush in hand, breathing the scent of her own hair

and thinks: I have been the weir

where disintegration stopped.

Lifts her brush once like a thrown thing

lays it down at her side like a stockpiled weapon

crushes out the light. Elsewhere

dust chokes the filters, dead leaves rasp in the grate.

Clogged, the fine nets bulge

and she is not there.

1988

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