Sometimes I get sick of reading my stuff. Here’s one of my favorite poems by Adrienne Rich.
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
by Adrienne Rich
Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon’s eyelid
later spread
sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair
asleep but not oblivious
of the unslept unsleeping
elsewhere
Tonight I think
no poetry
will serve
Syntax of rendition:
verb pilots the plane
adverb modifies action
verb force-feeds noun
submerges the subject
noun is choking
verb disgraced goes on doing
now diagram the sentence
One response to “A Fave Poem from Adrienne Rich”
Good poem.