Important Quotations Explained
1. Never
mind the fact that all the really stirring poems I’d read at that
time had been about slaughter, mayhem, sex and death—poetry was
thought of as existing in the pastel female realm, along with embroidery
and flower arranging.
2. There
is so much silence between the words,
you say. You say, The sensed absence
of God and the sensed presence
amount to much the same thing,
only in reverse.
3. The word
hand floats
above your hand
like a small cloud over a lake.
The word
hand anchors
your hand to this table
your hand is a warm stone
I hold between two words.
4. Turn you
over, there’s the place
for the address. Wish you were
here. Love comes
in waves like the ocean, a sickness which goes on
& on, a hollow cave
in the head, filling and pounding, a kicked ear.
5. You fit
into me
like a hook into an eye
A fish hook
An open eye
