A Woman Under the Surface: Poems and Prose Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets Book 162)

**From __A Woman Under the Surface__: MOON AND EARTH** __Alicia Ostriker__ ? Of one substance, of one Matter, they have cruelly Broken apart. They never will touch Each other again. The shining Lovelier and younger Turns away, a pitiful girl. She is completely naked And it hurts. The larger Motherly one, breathlessly luminous Emerald, and blue, and white Traveling mists, suffers Birth and death, birth and death, and the shock Of internal heat killed by external cold. They are dancing through that blackness. They press as if To come closer.