Saw
you walking barefoot
taking
a long look
at
the new moon's eyelid
later
spread
sleep-fallen,
naked in your dark hair
asleep
but not oblivious
of
the unslept unsleeping
elsewhere
Tonight
I think
no
poetry
will
serve
Syntax
of rendition:
verb
pilots the plane
adverb
modifies action
verb
force-feeds noun
submerges
the subject
noun
is choking
verb disgraced goes
on doing
now
diagram the sentence
Adrienne
Rich, 2007
