Adrienne Rich– Jan 23, 2022 Fun with Chairs

Another poet I wasn’t wild about at first glance. She feels perfect and necessary right now.

Dreams Before Waking

…

What would it mean to live

in a city whose people were changing

each other's despair into hope?—

You yourself must change it.—

what would it feel like to know

your country was changing?—

You yourself must change it.—

Though your life felt arduous

new and unmapped and strange

what would it mean to stand on the first

page of the end of despair?