Adrienne Rich - Face to Face lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Face to Face lyrics]
Never to be lonely like that
The Early American figure on the beach
In black coat and knee-breeches
Scanning the didactic storm in privacy
Never to hear the prairie wolves
In their lunar hilarity
Circling one’s little all, one’s claim
To be Law and Prophets
For all that lawlessness
Never to whet the appetite
Weeks early, for a face, a hand
Longed-for and dreaded
How people used to meet!
Starved, intense, the old
Christmas gifts saved up till spring
And the old plain words
And each with his God-given secret
Spelled out through months of
Snow and silence
Burning under the bleached scalp
Behind dry lips a loaded gun
The Early American figure on the beach
In black coat and knee-breeches
Scanning the didactic storm in privacy
Never to hear the prairie wolves
In their lunar hilarity
Circling one’s little all, one’s claim
To be Law and Prophets
For all that lawlessness
Never to whet the appetite
Weeks early, for a face, a hand
Longed-for and dreaded
How people used to meet!
Starved, intense, the old
Christmas gifts saved up till spring
And the old plain words
And each with his God-given secret
Spelled out through months of
Snow and silence
Burning under the bleached scalp
Behind dry lips a loaded gun