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“I would find a way of bringing my intense inner life, my questing life, into balance with history; I would be fearless, or give that impression; I would be fearless, though frightened”

“I would expose my heart, as I would expose my body; I would make myself vulnerable, I would expiate my guilt; I would remake myself another time, empowered by loss, grief.”

Vernor thought the dress was “erotic”—“smelling of grave mold”

As if a wicked troll had baptized me, in infancy, as my mother wasted away to Death, unknowing; a flick of the troll’s fingers, poisonous water splashed onto my forehead. I baptize thee in the name of ceaseless yearning, ceaseless seeking, and ceaseless dissatisfaction.