I tend to not weep over that.
Posted 6 years ago with 8,185 notes from beholdingslut
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
Adrienne Rich, from “Power,” Power, The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 (via mythaelogy)
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