Posted by alexdelroy on November 2, 2009, 5:02 pm
Instead of concentrating on work I am daydreaming and thinking about beauty, emotion, love, sex and all those good things. I wish this second coming of puberty would be over already. I need to focus. Whoever mentioned Adrienne Rich, thanks I just wish she was part of my assessment. Too late to change majors now. Will coffee snap me out of this?
"Every peak is a crater. This is the law of volcanoes,
making them eternally and visibly female.
No height without depth, without a burning core,
though our straw soles shred on the hardened lava.
I want to travel with you to every sacred mountain
smoking within like the sibyl stooped over her tripod,
I want to reach for your hand as we scale the path,
to feel you arteries glowing in my clasp,
never failing to note the small, jewel-like flower
unfamiliar to us, nameless till we rename her,
that clings to the slowly altering rock-
that detail outside ourselves that brings us to ourselves,
was here before us, knew we would come, and sees beyond us."
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