My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts - A poem by Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich - My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts

My mouth hovers across your breasts
in the short grey winter afternoon
in this bed we are delicate
and touch so hot with joy we amaze ourselves
tough and delicate we play rings
around each other our daytime candle burns
with its peculiar light and if the snow
begins to fall outside filling the branches
and if the night falls without announcement
there are the pleasures of winter
sudden, wild and delicate your fingers
exact my tongue exact at the same moment
stopping to laugh at a joke
my love hot on your scent on the cusp of winter

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Poet: Adrienne Rich Poem: My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts Comment 5 of 5, added on December 31st, 2007 at 12:32 AM. Of course the themes of the poem are relevant to anybody who's ever loved anybody. But the fact that it's a female narrator addressing another female is hugely significant because representing lesbian sexual experience is still a radical act in the tradition of western literature. This poem does it beautifully. eleanor from United Kingdom Comment 4 of 5, added on March 1st, 2007 at 3:33 PM. I do not see that it matters at all that it is a woman writing to or about another woman. Kirsty Gunn in her article in the Guardian24/02, through which I came to Adrienne Rich, talks about her love for her children using the same images "my own breath against their soft necks". I am an old man now, and glad to say that I have loved a woman, and my kids, with the same irreplaceable hot joy. My life is worth living just to have felt that. PC Patrick Cogswell from United Kingdom Comment 3 of 5, added on January 21st, 2006 at 8:47 AM. As a lesbian reading this poem, it means so much. The language is so powerful, and as I read I could be, I am, the narrator, making love on a winter afternoon with the woman I love. Hayley from United Kingdom More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts, has received 5 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Adrienne Rich with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Adrienne Rich Poem: My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts Last read: May 9 2008, 8:27PM Viewed 5685 times. Added on January 21st, 2006 at 8:47 AM.

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