Adrienne Rich — Memorize This

i. Love for twenty-six years, you can’t stop A withered petunia’s crisp the bud sticky both are dark The flower engulfed in its own purple So common, nothing like it The old woodstove gone to the dump Sun plunges through the new skylight This morning’s clouds piled like autumn in Massachusetts This afternoon’s far-flung like the Mojave Night melts one body into another One drives fast the other maps a route Thought new it becomes familiar From thirteen years back maybe One oils the hinges one edges the knives One loses an earring the other finds it One says I’d rather make love Than go to the Greek Festival The other, I agree. ii. Take a strand of your hair on my fingers let it fall across the pillow lift to my nostrils inhale your body entire Sleeping with you after weeks apart how normal yet after midnight to turn and slide my arm along your thigh drawn up in sleep what delicate amaze


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