Soon enough came fearfulness →
via Verabatim Poetry, a paragraph of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights quoted in a LRB review, made into a poem by @BetaRish:
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.