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Magazine Parting Words

Polish the stone or the mind

By Sarah Ruhl

Summer 2022

The sand will scrub my
words away the sand will scrub
my skin away all

that is left is water

— SARAH RUHL

♦

Sarah Ruhl, “Polish the stone or the mind” from Love Poems in Quarantine. Copyright © 2022 by Sarah Ruhl. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.

Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, and poet. Her fifteen plays include Eurydice; The Clean House; and In the Next Room, or the vibrator play. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Her book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. An opera version of Eurydice was presented by LA Opera last year and opens at the Metropolitan Opera on November 23.