Once she was born
I was never not afraid:
afraid of swimming pools,
high-tension wires,
lye under the sink,
aspirin in the medicine cabinet…
rattlesnakes, riptides, landslides,
strangers who appeared at the door,
unexplained fevers, elevators without
operators and empty hotel corridors.
(London Review of Books quoting Joan Didion’s Blue Nights. Submitted by Rishi Dastidar)
Verbatim Poetry 