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I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking.
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This life is a war we are not yet
winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own.
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When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
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Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh....
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.
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Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.
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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
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We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.
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The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?
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We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future
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Troubles cured you salty as a country ham,
smoky to the taste, thick skinned and tender inside.
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Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
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If what we change does not change us
we are playing with blocks.
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Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
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The moment shimmered like a glass of full-bodied wine.
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Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.
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We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
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We are rich earthy cooks
both of us and the flesh we are working
off was put on with grave pleasure.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
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The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.
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Nobody can live on a bridge
or plant potatoes
but it is fine for comings and goings,
meetings, partings and long views
and a real connection to someplace else
where you may
in the crazy weathers of struggle
now and again want to be.
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Marge Piercy
Born:
March 31, 1936
(age 88)
Bio:
Marge Piercy is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. Piercy is the author of Woman on the Edge of Time, He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C.
Known for:
Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)
He, She and It (1991)
Gone to Soldiers (1987)
The Longing of Woman (1994)
Sex Wars (2005)
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