Poetry in Motion - Adrienne Rich

XIII (Dedications) Adrienne Rich

                              I know
you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick
lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on
because even the alphabet is precious.

(excerpt from “An Atlas of the Difficult World”)
From The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950-2001
Copyright © 2002, 1991 by Adrienne Rich
Reprinted with the permission of the author and W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.

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