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“Can we disagree graciously
I am tired of people

not knowing the volume
of their power.”
― Raymond Antrobus

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― Raymond Antrobus

“It [poetry] can be read as just a reminder that we have more senses than we have the words for, so perhaps we ought to revel in that if we are to truly live our lives in the light?”
― Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance

“Since our separation I have been spilling
ink on lined pages, wondering what stopped
working when the plates were put away and
how many times we asked with water in our eyes
what we wanted if it wasn’t art on the wall
in the house by the sea?”
― Raymond Antrobus

“And no one knew what I was missing
until a doctor gave me a handful of Lego
and said to put a brick on the table
every time I heard a sound.
After the test I still held enough bricks
in my hand to build a house
and call it my sanctuary,
call it the reason I sat in saintly silence
during my grandfather's sermons when he preached
The Good News I only heard
as Babylon's babbling echoes.”
― Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance

“The less I hear the bigger the swamp, so I smile and nod and my head becomes a faint fog horn, a lost river. ... I am still afraid I have grown up missing too much information.”
― Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance