Final Notations
Adrienne Rich * Track #5 On An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
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Final Notations by Adrienne Rich
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The form of this poem appears to vaguely follow the conventions of the pantoum style, with the first and third lines of each quatrain thematically matching the second and third lines of the subsequent stanza.
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it will not be simple, it will not be long
it will take little time, it will take all your thought
it will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
it will be short, it will not be simple
it will touch through your ribs, it will take all your heart
it will not be long, it will occupy your thought
as a city is occupied, as a bed is occupied
it will take all your flesh, it will not be simple
You are coming into us who cannot withstand you
you are coming into us who never wanted to withstand you
you are taking parts of us into places never planned
you are going far away with pieces of our lives
it will be short, it will take all your breath
it will not be simple, it will become your will
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Final Notations was written by Adrienne Rich.