Desdichada
Originally published in Breaking Open (1973) 1 For that you never acknowledged me, I acknowledge the spring's yellow detail, the every drop of rain, the anonymous unacknowledged men and women. The shine as it glitters in our child's wild eyes, one o'clock at night. This river, this city, the years of the shadow on the delicate skin of my hand, moving in time. Disinherited, annulled, finally disacknowledged and all of my own asking. I keep that wild dimension of life and making and the spasm upon my mouth as I say this word of acknowledge to you forever. Ewig. Two [...]