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

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