Adrienne Rich

Boundary

What has happened here will do

To bite the living world in two,

Half for me and half for you.

Here at least I fix a line

Severing the world’s design

Too small to hold both yours and mine.

There’s enormity in a hair

Enough to lead men not to share

Narrow confines of a sphere

But put an ocean or a fence

Between two opposite intents.

A hair would span the difference.

Adrienne Rich. Selected Poems. London:  The Hogarth Press,  1967.

Adrienne Rich

I guess you're not alone I fear you're alone
There's, of course, poetry:
awful bridge rising over naked air: I first
took it as just a continuation of the road:
"a masterpiece of engineering
praised, etc." then on the radio:
"incline too steep for ease of, etc."
Drove it nonetheless because I had to
this being how- So this is how
I find you: alive and more

Adrienne Rich. Fox. New York: Norton, 2001.

Adrienne Rich

 

The moment of change is the only poem

Adrienne Rich, Images for Godard.