A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open…

Adrienne Rich
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2016). Collected Poems: 1950-2012, p.470, W. W. Norton & Company
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- word … ▶
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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