Adrienne Rich - Euryclea's Tale lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Euryclea's Tale lyrics]
I have to weep when I see it
The grown boy fretting
For a father dawdling among the isles
And the seascape hollowed out by
That boy's edged gaze
To receive one speck, one only
For years and years withheld
And that speck, that curious man
Has kept from home
Till home would seem the forbidden place
Till blood
And tears of an old woman must run down
To satisfy the genius of place even then
What can they do together, father and son?
The driftwood stranger and the rooted boy
Whose eyes will have nothing then
To ask the sea
But all the time and everywhere
Lies in ambush for the distracted eyeball
Light: light on the ship racked up in port
The chimney-stones
The scar whiter than smoke
Than her flanks, her hair
That true but aging bridge
The grown boy fretting
For a father dawdling among the isles
And the seascape hollowed out by
That boy's edged gaze
To receive one speck, one only
For years and years withheld
And that speck, that curious man
Has kept from home
Till home would seem the forbidden place
Till blood
And tears of an old woman must run down
To satisfy the genius of place even then
What can they do together, father and son?
The driftwood stranger and the rooted boy
Whose eyes will have nothing then
To ask the sea
But all the time and everywhere
Lies in ambush for the distracted eyeball
Light: light on the ship racked up in port
The chimney-stones
The scar whiter than smoke
Than her flanks, her hair
That true but aging bridge