Attenuate the Loss and Find

For Adrienne Rich [Our burden to carry as she did shift the weight of song, heft and gnosis “body poetics” as a total event her fullness rare in the amnesiac Kulchur awake, awareness & urgency when poetry serves] name appears everywhere and in dream body armor removed what now, legacy,archivum we female archons preserve of intensity a durance a hand you recognize (sounds sound) assurance as lives on drank of that drank of this almost suffocated, then drowned downed but never what only she could only know as herself living in the brute time speak of a syntax of rendition? the politics of Empire chip away as poetry attests,give it up curve of a water-starved globe to follow and be following? racism, sexism, struggle everything in intense grasp of consciousness — cut in crystal observation for her rapid and perched intellectus privacy opens to vibrant light this is stuff of Eros, of empathy passionate edge of Adrienne the American Skeptic I feel you consociational in this light a term of anthropology, to study intersections in the annals we share intergenerational, interspecies, interlanguage move in parallelograms getting it right as she did Solstice, Boulder, Colorado 2012 High Park fires distress