Poems by Adrienne Rich
Twenty-One Love Poems IX
... I want to see raised dripping and brought into the sun ...
Twenty-One Love Poems VII
... so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem ...
Twenty-One Love Poems XII
... is freighted with different language, different meanings ...
Twenty-One Love Poems X
... X Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through ...
Twenty-One Love Poems XI
... was here before us, knew we would come, and sees beyond us ...
Twenty-One Love Poems V
... of artists dying in childbirth, wise-women charred at the stake, ...
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
... Aunt Jennifers fingers fluttering through her wool ...
Twenty-One Love Poems VI
... I could trust the world, or in many hands like these, ...
Twenty-One Love Poems II
... which carries the feathered grass a long way down the upbreathing air ...
Twenty-One Love Poems XVIII
... for once, a tremor breaks the surface of your words ...
Diving Into the Wreck
... worn by salt and away into this threadbare beauty ...
Twenty-One Love Poems I
... from those rancid dreams, that blurt of metal, those disgraces, ...
Twenty-One Love Poems XX
... and soon I shall know I was talking to my own soul ...
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
... A last attempt: the language is a dialect called metaphor ...
Burning Oneself Out
... the serrated log, the yellow-blue gaseous core ...
