“I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.”
― The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
― The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
“It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple”
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It will be short, it will not be simple”
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“And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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