Marge Piercy Fire Poems
- 1. To Be Of Use
The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
... - 2. Colors Passing Through Us
Purple as tulips in May, mauve
into lush velvet, purple
as the stain blackberries leave
on the lips, on the hands,
... - 3. The Birthday Of The World
ve done and left
undone, but this year
not so much rebuilding
of my perennially damaged
... - 4. Implications Of One Plus One
Sometimes we collide, tectonic plates merging,
continents shoving, crumpling down into the molten
veins of fire deep in the earth and raising
tons of rock into jagged crests of Sierra.
... - 5. For The Young Who Want To
Talent is what they say
you have after the novel
is published and favorably
reviewed. Beforehand what
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