A poem
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May 11, 2009, 11:51 am
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Photograph of the Girl
The girl sits on the hard ground,
the dry pan of Russia, in the drought
of 1921, stunned
eyes closed, mouth open,
raw hot wind blowing
sand in her face. Hunger and puberty are
taking her together. She leans on a sack,
layers of clothes fluttering in the heat,
the new radius of her arm curved.
She cannot be not beautiful, but she is
starving. Each day she grows thinner, and her bones
grow longer, porous. The caption says
she is going to starve to death that winter
with millions of others. Deep in her body
the ovaries let out her first eggs,
golden as drops of grain.
*Sharon Olds from The Dead and The Living
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Buried Alive 
Ahh yes: tragic poem of a girl’s suffering and slow death and wordpress believes it possibly related to “Top 5 ways to Tell if a Woman is Hitting On You.”
For the daft: Top Way to Tell if a Woman is Hitting on You
Comment by pisaquaririse May 11, 2009 @ 12:52 pm1. She is experiencing famine
(irony, yet)
That is shatteringly beautiful. (not the 5 ways to tell if a woman is hitting on you – I dread to even imagine what those 5 ways could possibly be, probably the uttering of international come-on “Fuck off loser”).
I do not know Sharon Olds so thank you for that heart wrenching introduction.
Comment by feminamist May 18, 2009 @ 7:26 am