adrienne rich

• marie curie için yazdığı power şiiri:
  
  "living in the earth-depositis of our history
  today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
  one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
  cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
  for living on this earth in the winters of this climate
  
  today i was reading about marie curie:
  she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness
  her body bombarded for years by the element
  she had purified
  it seems she denied to the end
  the source of the cataracts on her eyes
  the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends
  till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil
  
  she died a famous woman denying
  her wounds
  denying
  her wounds came from the same source as her power."
  
  bu sabah marie curie'yi düşünürken saatler sonra bu şiire denk gelmem de ilginç bir tesadüf oldu.