The Telnyuk Sisters - Habitation by Margaret Atwood [DEMO]

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 desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn

where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far

we are learning to make fire

"Habitation"; Music © 2013, The Telnyuk Sisters, Lyrics are the Poem: "Habitation", by Margaret Atwood, from the poetry collections ; SELECTED POEMS I, 1965 -- 1975, ©1976 Margaret Atwood, published in the United States by Houghton Mifflin; SELECTED POEMS, 1966 -- 1984, ©1990 Margaret Atwood, published in Canada by Oxford University Press; and in the UK, EATING FIRE, ©Margaret Atwood 1998, published by Virago Books. Used by permission of the Author. All rights reserved.