Written In Bone: Early Poems by Piercy, Marge

A selection of poems from four of Marge Piercy's early volumes, together with uncollected poems from a poet who Erica Jong described as 'one of the most important writers of our time' whose poems have 'authority, power and verbal brilliance.'

January Thaw

Six days
narrow as razors
yet wide enough
as that single bed
we slept on, tangled.

Deep enough to free fall
twined, dancing
through that huge temporary
space, wind whistling
the land turning
like the hands of a clock
the sun far below us.

Through dead winter
the chickadees are calling
as they do in spring
fe-ver, fe-ver rising,
descending sweetly.

A January thaw, country
roads turned chocolate pudding
our boots with sucking sounds
clambering over the still-
intact oak leaves
pages of an old diary
an old year
thrown off.

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