BETH: At the well

from Kaleidoscope where glass: interpretations of Marge Piercy poems by Marie Songer

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Though I'm blind now and age has gutted me
knotted up in a leather sack
I have wrestled with an angel
It happened near that well by Peniel
where the water runs copper and cold
even in drought, sore and dusty
I was traveling my usual rounds
wary of strange men
Strange strange strange strange
The angel struck me
My dust-stained gristle of a body
was pushed against him
his fiery chest fell through me like a star
Raw with bruises, my muscles sawing
I thought that fighting could be like making love
Then in the gray placental dawn I saw
Said, I know you now on a tree of fire
whatever you are
whatever you are I’ve won a blessing from you
From you, from you, from you
My gifts have human faces
hieroglyphs that command
you with out yielding what they mean
cast yourself and I will bless your cast
till your bones are dice
I am the demon of beginnings
Get away from me, get away from me
Get away from me, my old enemy
my friend, my twin, my lover
I trusted as the fish in the water

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from Kaleidoscope where glass: interpretations of Marge Piercy poems, released April 18, 2022
"BETH: At the well" by Marge Piercy.
Copyright © 1977, 1980 by Marge Piercy.
From THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.).
Used by permission of Robin Straus Agency, Inc.

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