“I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.”
― Diving Into the Wreck
― Diving Into the Wreck
“and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us
which will we claim
how will we go on living
how will we touch, what will we know
what will we say to each other.”
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which will we claim
how will we go on living
how will we touch, what will we know
what will we say to each other.”
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“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
“We move but our words stand
become responsible
for more than we intended
and this is verbal privilege”
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become responsible
for more than we intended
and this is verbal privilege”
―
“No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,
our animal passion rooted in the city.”
― The Dream of a Common Language
sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,
our animal passion rooted in the city.”
― The Dream of a Common Language
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