Norm Jenson

“Dorothy Parker who wrote witty stories, did not foresee that spectacles would be- come fashion accessories. “Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.” And today, in Washington Square Park I thought of her, Miss Parker, and what she might say assessing the spectacles of our day: “Even the nicest lasses Have tattoos on their asses.”
― David Lehman, Poems in the Manner Of

“Nearby was a box of thick seventy-eights, grackle black and grackle brilliant. Thea thought the cliff might come down. But the woman was goat-footed; she got to the top and came back down and handed over the doll.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, The Souvenir Museum

“Nadja, who is always hunting for a man, but always the wrong one, is trying to get together with Ebbe’s brother Karsten, who she would fit like a ring in his nose.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood – Youth – Dependency

“You could think a grackle was somebody you’d lost, or wronged, or owed a favor to, come back to settle accounts.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, The Souvenir Museum