A Woman Under the Surface: Poems and Prose Poems

From A Woman Under the Surface: MOON AND EARTH

Alicia Ostriker

Of one substance, of one Matter, they have cruelly Broken apart. They never will touch

Each other again. The shining Lovelier and younger Turns away, a pitiful girl.

She is completely naked And it hurts. The larger Motherly one, breathlessly luminous

Emerald, and blue, and white Traveling mists, suffers Birth and death, birth

and death, and the shock Of internal heat killed by external cold. They are dancing through that blackness.

They press as if To come closer.

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Ebook: February 9, 2021