Lora Straub Brocone
Her father once told her casually that she was built like a plum on toothpicks, and the phrase was at once so cruel and so poetic that it clicked into place around her like a harness.
“What if someone had told me, thirty
years ago: If you give up, now,
wanting to be an artist, he might
love you all your life—what would I
have said? I didn't even have an art,
it would could from out of our family's life—
what could I have said: nothing will stop me.”
― Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
years ago: If you give up, now,
wanting to be an artist, he might
love you all your life—what would I
have said? I didn't even have an art,
it would could from out of our family's life—
what could I have said: nothing will stop me.”
― Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
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