Caroline

“unsignificantly
off the coast
there was

a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning”
― William Carlos Williams

“Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

--through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.”
― William Carlos Williams

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.”
― Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle