Adrienne Rich - Moving in Winter lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Moving in Winter lyrics]
Their life, collapsed like unplayed cards
Is carried piecemeal through the snow
Headboard and footboard now, the bed
Where overhead his sleep will build
It's canopy to smother her once more
Their table, by four elbows worn
Evening after evening while the wax runs down
Mirrors grey with reflecting them
Bureaus coffining from the cold
Things that can shuffle in a drawer
Carpets rolled up around those echoes
Which, shaken out, take wing and breed
New altercations, the old silences
Is carried piecemeal through the snow
Headboard and footboard now, the bed
Where overhead his sleep will build
It's canopy to smother her once more
Their table, by four elbows worn
Evening after evening while the wax runs down
Mirrors grey with reflecting them
Bureaus coffining from the cold
Things that can shuffle in a drawer
Carpets rolled up around those echoes
Which, shaken out, take wing and breed
New altercations, the old silences