from “Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich

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I have been standing all my life in the
direct path of a battery of signals
the most accurately transmitted most
untranslatable language in the universe
I am a galactic cloud so deep so      invo-
luted that a light wave could take 15
years to travel through me      And has
taken      I am an instrument in the shape
of a woman trying to translate pulsations
into images    for the relief of the body
and the reconstruction of the mind.

—Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012

(Source: poetryfoundation.org)

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