Adrienne Rich - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning lyrics

My swirling wants your frozen lips
The grammar turned and attacked me
Themes, written under duress
Emptiness of the notations

They gave me a drug that
Slowed the healing of wounds

I want you to see this before I leave:
The experience of repetition as death
The failure of criticism to locate the pain
The poster in the bus that said:
My bleeding is under control

A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths

A last attempt: the language is
A dialect called metaphor
These images go unglossed: hair, glacier
Flashlight when I think of a landscape I
Am thinking of a time
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever
I could say: those mountains have a meaning
But further than that I could not say

To do something very common, in my own way