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title: "Классика американской поэзии вместо приветствия. И Флоренс."
description: "\"Song\"Adrienne Rich You're wondering if I'm lonely: OK then, yes, I'm lonelyas a plane rides lonely ..."
author: "Sequana"
published: "2012-12-09T02:49:33+00:00"
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# Классика американской поэзии вместо приветствия. И Флоренс.

> "Song"Adrienne Rich You're wondering if I'm lonely: OK then, yes, I'm lonelyas a plane rides lonely ...

**"Song"** *Adrienne Rich*

> You're wondering if I'm lonely: OK then, yes, I'm lonely **as a plane rides lonely and level** ** on its radio beam**, aiming across the Rockies for the blue-strung aisles of an airfield on the ocean. You want to ask, am I lonely? Well, of course, lonely as a woman driving across country day after day, leaving behind mile after mile **little towns she might have stopped** ** and lived and died in, lonely** If I'm lonely it must be **the loneliness** ** of waking first**, of breathing dawn's first cold breath on the city **of being the one awake** ** in a house wrapped in sleep** If I'm lonely it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, **that knows it's neither** ** ice nor mud nor winter light** ** but wood, with a gift for burning**.

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