Rosmarie Waldrop
SALTWOMAN, HER PRECISE WAY OF WORRYING
accepted energy
a dream-like lump
of lead
waves
matrices
the body's waste
the country striped with snow
traveling in this direction
they will come
down from the east
to the south they'll come
the everyday words
of the atom
and die of their heat
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Copyright Rosmarie Waldrop 1980