Margaret Atwood

CPC Readings

Friday, January 16, 1976
Museum of Contemporary Art

Poetry by Margaret Atwood

For Archeologists

Made with blood, with coloured
dirt, with smoke, not meant
to be seen but to remain
there hidden, potent
in the dark…

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Morning in the Burned House

In the burned house I am eating breakfast.
You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast,
yet here I am.

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