Adrienne Rich, “A Mark of Resistance” …

 
 
 
Adrienne Rich

 
 
 
“A Mark of Resistance”

 
Stone by stone I pile
this cairn of my intention
with the noon’s weight on my back,
exposed and vulnerable
across the slanting fields
which I love but cannot save
from floods that are to come;
can only fasten down
with this work of my hands,
these painfully assembled
stones, in the shape of nothing
that has ever existed before.
A pile of stones: an assertion
that this piece of country matters
for large and simple reasons.
A mark of resistance, a sign.

 
       [Photo: Campbell Falls, October 2015,
       near the Massachusetts / Connecticut state line.]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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~ by samofthetenthousandthings on August 31, 2018.