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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To do something very common, in my own way. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1971). The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company
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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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