Adrienne Rich - Confrontations lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Confrontations lyrics]
It’s not new, this condition, just for awhile
Kept deep in the cortex of things imagined
Now the imagination comes of age
I see ourselves, full-lipped, blood-flushed
In cold air, still conflicted, still
Embraced
Boarding the uncharter’d bus of vanishment
Backward glances over and done afterimages
Swirl and dissolve along a
Shoal of footprints
Simple ghouls flitter already
Among our leavings
Fixing labels in their strange language but
Up to now we’re not debris
(only to their fascinated eyes)
Kept deep in the cortex of things imagined
Now the imagination comes of age
I see ourselves, full-lipped, blood-flushed
In cold air, still conflicted, still
Embraced
Boarding the uncharter’d bus of vanishment
Backward glances over and done afterimages
Swirl and dissolve along a
Shoal of footprints
Simple ghouls flitter already
Among our leavings
Fixing labels in their strange language but
Up to now we’re not debris
(only to their fascinated eyes)