#title Writings of Diane DiPrima
#author Diane DiPrima
#SORTauthors Diane DiPrima;
#date 2006
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/373-fall-2006/writings-of-diane-diprima]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2015-03-28
#notes Fifth Estate #373, Fall 2006


[[3-f-fe-376-47-diprima.png f][Diane Di Prima, 1960s]]


archangel of fire

enwraps now melts glaciers

turf unexposed

angelic aeons trembles

naked

under a vengeful sun

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--Diane DiPrima

August 3, 2002
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green shack in Richmond

tag on the door sez “Merlin’s”

just that

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--Diane DiPrima

March 23, 2003

<em>Train to Sacramento</em>
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true poppies:

red & white

black opium hearts

not the state

sanctioned orange

only if there is no history at all

can this shame prevail

every shard of cunieform pressed into clay tablet

every shred of ancient weaving

every fragment of myth or whispered family tale

gives the lie

to what we are now living

<quote>
--Diane DiPrima

June 2006
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<em>See also:</em> Diane Di Prima’s “Revolutionary Letters” (review), [[http://www.fifthestate.org/archive/376-halloween-2007/diane-di-primas-revolutionary-letters/][FE #376, Halloween, 2007]]