How was woman broken? Falling out of attention.
Wiping gnarled fingers on a faded house dress. Lying down in the puddle beside the broken jug.
It is too easy to write this. Write of the grey
in straggling, thinning hair.
Write of the mounds
of blue cake, under the moon.
Where was the slack, the loss of early fierceness?
How did we come to be contained in rooms? Which room
holds the jewels which buy us & for which we have
other uses? It is too easy
to grind our teeth in our sleep. Give me that porcelain jug too big to carry, too precious for you to part with
let me figure how to get it home unbroken. Give me
that story you wear like a stone (jewel)
Or yr slack breast under my hand.
Diane di Prima war eine US-amerikanische Dichterin (*1934 in Brooklyn, New York City, †2020 in San Francisco, CA) sowie eine der inspirierendsten Stimmen der Beat Generation.