'Trying to Talk to a Man,' Adrienne Rich – @asuddenline on Tumblr

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Out in this desert we are testing bombs, that's why we came here. Sometimes I feel an underground river forcing its way between deformed cliffs an acute angle of understanding moving itself like a locus of the sun into this condemned scenery. What we’ve had to give up to get here – whole LP collections, films we starred in playing in the neighborhoods, bakery windows full of dry, chocolate-filled Jewish cookies, the language of love-letters, of suicide notes, afternoons on the riverbank pretending to be children Coming out to this desert we meant to change the face of driving among dull green succulents walking at noon in the ghost town surrounded by a silence that sounds like the silence of the place except that it came with us and is familiar and everything we were saying until now was an effort to blot it out – coming out here we are up against it Out here I feel more helpless with you than without you You mention the danger and list the equipment we talk of people caring for

'Trying to Talk to a Man,' Adrienne Rich Out in this desert we are testing bombs, that's why we came here. Sometimes I feel an underground river forcing its way between deformed cliffs an acute angle of understanding moving itself like a locus of the sun into this condemned scenery. What we’ve had to give up to get here – whole LP collections, films we starred in playing in the neighborhoods, bakery windows full of dry, chocolate-filled Jewish cookies, the language of love-letters, of suicide notes, afternoons on the riverbank pretending to be children Coming out to this desert we meant to cha

'Trying to Talk to a Man,' Adrienne Rich – @asuddenline on Tumblr

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