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Verse Memoir Quotes

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Barbara Blatner
“I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference?
I could easily
kick you in, stove you
under, for all those times,
mean on gin,
you rammed words
into my belly. (p. 52)”
― Barbara Blatner
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Barbara Blatner
“oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless-
and the beast
your life
nowhere
hiding (p. 103)”
― Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
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Barbara Blatner
“...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there,
quaking with
will, on
heron legs,
and still the hot
muck pours
out of you. (p. 27)”
― Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
tags: alcoholism, barbara-blatner, cancer, colon-cancer, conflict, daughters, death, death-and-daughters, death-and-dying, death-and-love, death-and-sickness, death-and-son, death-of-a-loved-one, dying, dying-at-home, grief, grieving, grieving-the-loss-of-a-mother, hate, healing, life, love, memoir, memoirs, mother, mountains, new-york, new-york-quarterly, poem, poems, poetry, son, verse, verse-memoir, verses
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