Living in the earth-depositis of our
history
Today a backhoe divulged out of a
crumbling flank of earth
one bottle amber perfect a
hundred-year-old
cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
for living on this earth in the
winters of this climate
Today I was reading about Marie
Curie:
she must have known she suffered
from radiation sickness
her body bombarded for years by the
element
she had purified
It seems she denied to the end
the source of the cataracts on her
eyes
the cracked and suppurating skin of
her finger-ends
till she could no longer hold a
test-tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source
as her power
~Adrienne Rich
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