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“I thought about the way my mind wanders, how I drift through days losing hours, forgetting to remain in my body. How they call me absentminded, forgetful. The way I am mercury spilling over surfaces—solid and liquid, here and not.”
Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

Ada Limon
“I know
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal.”
Ada Limon, The Carrying

Eavan Boland
“Eurydice Speaks”

How will I know you in the underworld?
How will we find each other?

We lived for so long on the physical earth—
Our skies littered with actual stars
Practical tides in our bay—
What will we do with the loneliness of the mythical?

Walking beside ditches brimming with dactyls,
By a ferryman whose feet are scanned for him
On the shore of a river written and rewritten
As elegy, epic, epode.

Remember the thin air of our earthly winters?
Frost was an iron, underhand descent.
Dusk was always in session

And no one needed to write down
Or restate, or make record of, or ever would,
And never will,
The plainspoken music of recognition,

Nor the way I often stood at the window—
The hills growing dark, saying,

As a shadow became a stride
And a raincoat was woven out of streetlight

I would know you anywhere.
Eavan Boland, A Woman Without a Country: Poems

Ada Limon
“All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself.”
Ada Limon, The Carrying

Christopher Fry
“I have come Here to have the protection of your laughter.”
Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

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