Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law by Adrienne Rich

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

TO THE AIRPORT

Death’s taxi crackles through the mist. The cheeks

of diamond battlements flush high and cold.

Alarm clocks strike a million sparks of will.

Weeping: all night we’ve wept and watched the hours

that never will be ours again: Now

weeping, we roll through unforgettable

Zion, that rears its golden head from sleep

to act, and does not need us as we weep.

You dreamed us, City, and you let us be.

Grandiloquence, improvidence, ordure, light,

hours that seemed years, and ours—and over all

the endless wing of possibility,

that mackerel heaven of yours, fretted with all

our wits could leap for, envy batten on.

Our flights take off from you into the sea;

nothing you need wastes, though we think we do.

You are Canaan now and we are lifted high

to see all we were promised, never knew.

1960

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