Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser

Now they're feeding me right into a metal mill furnace O love the circulate of glass a move of residing hearth. ALLOY this is often the main audacious panorama. The gangster's stance together with his gun smoking and out isn't so vicious as this advertisement box, its hill of glass. Sloping as gracefully as thighs, the foothills slim to this, clouds over each city ultimately point out the kept destruction. Crystalline hill: a blinded box of white murdering snow, seamed by way of convergent tracks; the traveling cranes achieve for the silica. And down the tune, the overhead conveyor slides on its cable to the ft of chimneys. Smoke rises, now not white adequate, now not so barbaric. right here the serious flame speaks from the brick throat, electrical furnaces produce this helpful, this fresh, annealing the crystals, fusing ultimately alloys. most well-liked for silicon, blast furnaces elevate flames, spill hearth, spill metal, quench the recent form to freeze, tempering it to perfected steel. compelled via this crucible, one million males. Above this pasture, the road passes these who curse the air, respiring their worry back. The roaring plants of the chimney-stacks much less poison, at their lips in hearth, than this dirt that's blown from off the sector of glass; blows and may blow, emerging over the turbines, crystallized and past the fierce corrosion disintegrated angel on those hills. energy the short sunlight brings, interesting mountains hot, homosexual at the landscapers and eco-friendly designs, miracle, yielding the intercourse up less than all of the dermis, until eventually the full physique watches the scene with love, sees excellent cliffs ranging till the river cuts sheer, mapped a long way lower than in tender song, shock of grace, the water working within the solar, superb flower at the mouth, shock as fanatics who glance too lengthy at the wanted face startle to discover the distant flesh so hot. an afternoon of warmth shed at the gorge, a super day while love sees the sunlight in the back of its guy and the disguised wonder lower than commonly used dermis. Steel-bright, light-pointed, the narrow-waisted towers raise their protecting community, the directly, the actual flex of contrast, financial system of present, gymnast, they poise their freight; god's generosity! provide their voltage low adequate for cities to address. The power-house stands skin-white on the transmitters' part over the rapids the brilliance the blind foam. this is often the halfway among water and flame, this can be the line to take in case you give some thought to your kingdom, among the dam and the furnace, terminal. The fresh park, fan of wires, landscapers, the stone technique. And noticeable past the door, the guy with the flashlight in his steel corridor. the following, the powerful eco-friendly, grey-toned and shining, tall substantial chamber of cylinders. eco-friendly, the wealthy paint catches gentle from three-story home windows, arches of sunshine vibrate erratic panels on aspects of curved metal. guy wallet flashlight, dead, the bright flooring casts tiled mirrored image up, bland partitions go back it, circles go it around. Wheels, keep an eye on panels, dials, the vassal tools.