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Adrienne Rich - PowerAdrienne Rich - Power
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Living in the earth-deposits of our history   Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old cure for fever or melancholy a tonic for living on this earth in the winters of this climate.   Today I was reading about Marie Curie: she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness her body bombarded for years by the element she had purified It seems she denied to the end the source of the cataracts on her eyes the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil   She died a famous woman denying her wounds denying her wounds came from the same source as her power.
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