16 quotes found
“We suffer each other to have each other a while.”
“Memory is sweet.Even when it's painful, memory is sweet.”
“Moonlight and high wind.Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.”
“I am that last, thatfinal thing, the bodyin a white sheet listening,”
“And of all the rooms in my childhood,God was the largestand most empty.”
“Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.”
“O, to take what we love inside,to carry within us an orchard, to eatnot only the skin, but the shade,not only the sugar, but the days, to holdthe fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite intothe rou...”
“a bruise, bluein the muscle, youimpinge upon me.As bone hugs the ache home, soI'm vexed to love you, your bodythe shape of returns, your hair a torsoof light, your heatI must have, your openingI'd ...”
“A door jumpsout from shadows,then jumps away. Thisis what I've come to find:the back door, unlatched.Tooled by insular wind, itslams and slamswithout meaningto and without meaning.”
“My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.The vein in my neckadores you. A swordstands up between my hips,my hidden fleece sends forth its scent of human oil.”
“That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and wha...”
“Memory revises me.”
“but in the cityin which I love you,no one comes, no onemeets me in the brick clefts;in the wedged dark,no finger touches me secretly, no mouthtastes my flawless salt,no one wakens the honey in the ...”
“Have You Prayed When the windturns and asks, in my fathers voice,Have you prayed?I know three things. One:Im never finished answering to the dead.Two: A man is four winds and three fires.And the fo...”
“I buried my father in my heart.Now he grows in me, my strange son, my little root who wont drink milk, little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night, little clock spring newly wetin the fire, little gr...”
“Have You Prayed” When the windturns and asks, in my father’s voice,Have you prayed?I know three things. One:I’m never finished answering to the dead.Two: A man is four winds and three fires.And the...”
