Adrienne Rich - Long After Stevens lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Long After Stevens lyrics]
A locomotive pushing through snow
In the mountains more modern than the will
To be modern The mountain’s profile
In undefiled snow disdains
Definitions of poetry It was always
Indefinite, task and destruction
The laser eye of the poet her blind eye
Her moment-stricken eye her unblinking eye
She had to get down from the blocked train
Lick snow from bare cupped hands
Taste what had soared into that air
Local cinders, steam of the fast machine
Clear her palate with a breath distinguish
Through tumbling whiteness figures
Frozen figures advancing
Weapons at the ready for the new password
She had to feel her tongue
Freeze and burn at once
Instrument searching, probing
Toward a foreign tongue
In the mountains more modern than the will
To be modern The mountain’s profile
In undefiled snow disdains
Definitions of poetry It was always
Indefinite, task and destruction
The laser eye of the poet her blind eye
Her moment-stricken eye her unblinking eye
She had to get down from the blocked train
Lick snow from bare cupped hands
Taste what had soared into that air
Local cinders, steam of the fast machine
Clear her palate with a breath distinguish
Through tumbling whiteness figures
Frozen figures advancing
Weapons at the ready for the new password
She had to feel her tongue
Freeze and burn at once
Instrument searching, probing
Toward a foreign tongue