1363, audre lorde Posted by LaDeeDeF_99, Wed Dec-08-04 12:40 PM
this one i havent read before...shes one of my favorites...im starting to get carried away here. great post topic, delrica!
peace ladee
Making Love to Concrete AUDRE LORDE An upright abutment in the mouth of the Willis Avenue bridge a beige Honda leaps the divider like a steel gazelle inescapable sleek leather boots on the pavement rat-a-tat-tat best intentions going down for the third time stuck in the particular
You cannot make love to concrete if you care about being non-essential wrong or worn thin if you fear ever becoming diamonds or lard you cannot make love to concrete if you cannot pretend concrete needs your loving
To make love to concrete you need an indelible feather white dresses before you are ten a confirmation lace veil milk-large bones and air raid drills in your nightmares no stars till you go to the country and one summer when you are twelve Con Edison pulls the plug on the street-corner moons Walpurgisnacht and there are sudden new lights in the sky stone chips that forget you need to become a light rope a hammer a repeatable bridge garden-fresh broccoli two dozen dropped eggs and a hint of you caught up between my fingers the lesson of a wooden beam propped up on barrels across a mined terrain
between forgiving too easily and never giving at all. ©1993, 1995 by Audre Lorde
"Making Love to Concrete" is from Audre Lorde's The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance, published by W.W. Norton & Co. in August, 1993. Lorde's work appear in this STANDARDS' tribute by permission of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, Inc., New York.
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