<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Spelling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My daughter plays on the floor<br>with plastic letters,<br>red, blue & hard yellow,<br>learning how to spell,<br>spelling,<br>how to make spells.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder how many women<br>denied themselves daughters,<br>closed themselves in rooms,<br>drew the curtains<br>so they could mainline words.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A child is not a poem,<br>a poem is not a child.<br>there is no either/or.<br>However.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I return to the story<br>of the woman caught in the war<br>& in labour, her thighs tied<br>together by the enemy<br>so she could not give birth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ancestress: the burning witch,<br>her mouth covered by leather<br>to strangle words.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A word after a word<br>after a word is power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the point where language falls away<br>from the hot bones, at the point<br>where the rock breaks open and darkness<br>flows out of it like blood, at<br>the melting point of granite<br>when the bones know<br>they are hollow & the word<br>splits & doubles & speaks<br>the truth & the body<br>itself becomes a mouth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is a metaphor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How do you learn to spell?<br>Blood, sky & the sun,<br>your own name first,<br>your first naming, your first name,<br>your first word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452495" data-title="Spelling de Margaret Atwood" data-description="My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling, how to make spells. I wonder how many women denied themselves daughters, closed themselves in rooms, drew the curtains so they could ma..."></div> </div> </div>

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