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Margaret Atwood
(1939-...)
Маргарет Этвуд

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HABITATION

Marriage is not
a house or even a tent

it is before that, and colder:

the edge of the forest, the edge
of the deserrt
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn

the edge of the receding glacier

where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far

we are learning to make fire

© 2000 Elena and Yacov Feldman