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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    I wish to show you the darkness you are so afraid of. Trust me. This darkness is a place you can enter and be as safe in as you are anywhere; you can put one foot in front of the other and believe the sides of your eyes. Memorize it. You will know it again in your own time. When the appearances of things have left you, you will still have this darkness. Something of your own you can carry with you.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    With you I could havemore than one skin,a blank interior, a repertoireof untold stories,a fresh beginning.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    This is "poetry," this songof the wind across teeth,this message from the flayed tongueto the flayed ear.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    All hearts float in their owndeep oceans of no light,wetblack and glimmering,their four mouths gulping like fish.Hearts are said to pound:this is to be expected, the heart'sregular struggle against being drowned.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    It is spring, and the night windis moist with the smell of turned loamand the early flowers;the moon pours out its beautywhich you see as beauty finally, warm and offering everything.You have only to take.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    You will flicker in these wordsand in the words of othersfor a while and then go out.Even if I send them,you will never get these letters.Even if I see you again,I will never see you again."
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    Language, like the mouths that hold and release it, is wet & living, each word is wrinkled with age, swollen with other words, with blood, smoothed by the numberless flesh tongues that have passed across it. Your language hangs around your neck, a noose, a heavy necklace; each word is empire, each word is vampire and mother.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    Nothing like love to put bloodback in the language,the difference between the beach and itsdiscrete rocks and shards, a hardcuneiform, and the tender cursiveof waves; bone and liquid fishegg, desertand saltmarsh, a green pushout of death. The vowels plump again like lips or soaked fingers, and the fingersthemselves move around thesesoftening pebbles as around skin. The sky's not vacant and over there but closeagainst your eyes, molten, so nearyou can taste it. It tastes of salt. What touches you is what you touch.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    Here is a handfulof shadow I have brought back to you:this decay, this hope, this mouth-ful of dirt, this poetry.
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    I want, I don't want.How can one live with such a heart?
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

    I would like to watch you sleeping,which may not happen.I would like to watch you,sleeping. I would like to sleepwith you, to enteryour sleep as its smooth dark waveslides over my head.and walk with you through that lucentwavering forest of bluegreen leaveswith its watery sun & three moonstowards the cave where you must descend,towards your worst fearI would like to give you the silverbranch, the small white flower, the oneword that will protect youfrom the grief at the centerof your dream, from the griefat the center. I would like to followyou up the long stairwayagain & becomethe boat that would row you backcarefully, a flamein two cupped handsto where your body liesbeside me, and you enterit as easily as breathing inI would like to be the airthat inhabits you for a momentonly. I would like to be that unnoticed& that necessary.
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