#Americans #PulitzerPrize #Women #XXCentury #XXICentury
I’d seen their hoofprints in the deep needles and knew they ended the long night under the pines, walking
In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees where the wind-bird with its white eyes
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light,
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her poc… full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone o…
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.
The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
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…
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the bramb… nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching
Needing one, I invented her— the great-great-aunt dark as hicko… called Shining-Leaf, or Drifting… or The-Beauty-of-the-Night. Dear aunt, I’d call into the leav…
All winter the water has crashed over the cold the cold sand. Now it breaks over the thin branch of your body.
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…
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…
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun