Anger And Tenderness: my selves.
And now I can believe they breathe in me
as angels, not polarities.
Anger And Tenderness: the spider's genius
to spin and weave in the same action
from her own body, anywhere —
even from a broken web.

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 (1993 edition), W. W. Norton & Company - ISBN: 9780393348156