#Americans #PulitzerPrize #Women #XXCentury #XXICentury
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hum… equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there t… Here the clam deep in the speckled…
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the… to buy me, and snaps the purse shu… when death comes
The river Of my childhood, That tumbled Down a passage of rocks And cut-work ferns,
I’d seen their hoofprints in the deep needles and knew they ended the long night under the pines, walking
Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
Scatterghost, it can’t float away. And the rain, everybody’s brother, won’t help. And the wind all these… flying like ten crazy sisters ever…
“For example, what the trees do not only in lightning storms or the watery dark of a summer’s n… or under the white nets of winter but now, and now, and now—whenever
Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…
Come with me into the field of sunflowers. Their faces are burnished disks, their dry spines creak like ship masts,
All winter the water has crashed over the cold the cold sand. Now it breaks over the thin branch of your body.
Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, lik… the wings of a moth in the beak of… Who has it, and who doesn’t? I keep looking around me.
At Blackwater Pond the tossed wat… after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls…
She steps into the dark swamp where the long wait ends. The secret slippery package drops to the weeds. She leans her long neck and tongue…
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories,