Poetry Solace: Of destiny

Another poem from Adrienne Rich..

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It's an oldfashioned, an outrageous thing
to believe one has a "destiny"

-- a thought often peculiar to those
who possess privilege --

but there is something else:  the faith
of those despised and endangered

that they are not merely the sum
of damages done to them:

have kept beyond violence the knowledge
arranged in patterns like kente-cloth

unexpected as in the batik
recurrent as bitter herbs and unleavened bread

of being a connective link
in a long, continuous way

of ordering hunger, weather, death, desire
and the nearness of chaos.




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