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.