“it will not be simple, it will not be long / it will take little time, it will take all your thought / it will take all your heart, it will take all your breath / it will be short, it will not be simple”
A (very) short thread of some poems I’ve loved by Adrienne Rich.
Rich. “When I think of a landscape I am thinking of a time. / When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.”
Rich. “You’re wondering if I’m lonely: / OK then, yes, I’m lonely / as a plane rides lonely and level / on its radio beam”
Rich. “At twenty, yes: we thought we’d live forever. / At forty-five, I want to know even our limits.”
Rich. “The story of our lives becomes our lives.”
Rich. “I have always wondered about the leftover / energy, water rushing down a hill / long after the rains have stopped”
Rich. “The poem makes its needs felt, becomes both my guide and my critic.”
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