What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Marge Piercy

What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Marge Piercy

Author:Marge Piercy [Piercy, Marge]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76194-1
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-08-28T00:00:00+00:00


Some wood bends and some breaks.

Some we shape into baskets, wicker,

some into toothpicks, some into beams

that carry the weight of our lives.

But this petrified triangle beside

my computer is a different wonder:

an earthen hued rainbow of rock

shiny as ice, a knife once wood.

I could not carve it but it could

whittle me. I call it the poem

the wood made of its life, each

fat and lean year in shining rings.

The sugar and salts, the water

and sap are long transmuted

into a bright stone shape that has

outlasted not only tree but forest.



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