La Reversible

Adrienne Rich nació en Baltimore (Maryland, EE UU) en 1929 y murió en Santa Cruz (California) en 2012. FOR THE RECORD The clouds and the stars didn´t wage this war the brooks gave no information in the mountain spewed stones of fire into the river it was not taking sides the raindrop faintly swaying under the leaf had no political opinions and if here or there a house filled with backed-up raw sewage or poisoned fumes, over years the houses were nor at war nor did the tinned-up buildings intend to refuse shelter to homeless old women and roaming children they had no policy to keep them roaming or dying, no, the cities were not the problem the bridges were non-partisan the freeways burned, but not with harred Even the miles of barbed-wire stretched around crouching temporary huts designed to keep the unwanted at a safe distance, out of sight even upon year, so many human sounds so many depths of vomit, tears slow-soaking blo...