Poetry Solace: Of cold

From Adrienne Rich

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Heart of cold.     Bones of cold.     Scalp of cold.
the grey       the black      the blond     the red
hairs on a skull of cold.        Within that skull
the thought of war      the sovereign thought
the coldest of all thought.    Dreaming shut down
everything kneeling down to cold     intelligence
smirking with cold     memory
squashed and frozen cold    breath
half held-in for cold.    The freezing people
of a freezing nation   eating
luxury food or garbage
frozen tongues licking the luxury meat
or the pizza-crust    the frozen eyes
welded to other eyes   also frozen
the cold hands trying to stroke   the coldest sex.
Heart of cold     Sex of cold     Intelligence of cold
My country    wedged fast in history
stuck in the ice



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