QUOTE : Power<br /> <br /> <br /> Living in the earth-deposits of our history<br /><br />Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth<br />one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old<br />cure for fever or melancholy a tonic<br />for living on this earth in the winters of this climate.<br /><br />Today I was reading about Marie Curie:<br />she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness<br />her body bombarded for years by the element<br />she had purified<br />It seems she denied to the end<br />the source of the cataracts on her eyes<br />the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends<br />till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil<br /><br />She died a famous woman denying<br />her wounds<br />denying<br />her wounds came from the same source as her power.