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Testimonyexpand_moreIt was to keep us impartial and to protect us from threats and bribes.
Never takes much, a fingertip’s touch, or beak-brush of prey-probing bird.
The people awakened, rose up, raged at tyrants garbed in uniforms.
We have mysterious inclinations. No one can explain it to us.
Expulsion. He was out, his course set. One word can turn the key.
The most arcane sexual practices could arouse me from my torpor.
Real ones get through again and again.
Christopher Woods
I hope I do not baffle or bluff. I hope I will not raise your hopes.
He hadn’t meant to hurt her. Drowning people will do anything for air.
I’m no longer the buzzards glooming over the mango tree.
We’re all trying, in our own ways, to parse what we may have done wrong.
If you’re going to take a degree, take one from the best school you can.
The clown has taken a seat at our veranda table in absolute silence.
Soledad is the name a woman is given, a sentence a woman must serve.
Distance, I’m discovering, is better in the imagination.
On Christmas Day, we lost one of our great advocates for poetry.
On this small island, everyone knows who comes, especially who goes.
Ahab went mad when he saw the sea is just the sea and nothing more.
Their days go over in idleness, and they sigh if the wind but lift a tress.
If you are hidden treasure, mine, don’t let me lose what I have gained.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very Heaven!
For eight weeks no one heard my voice for eight weeks no one slept.
I keep an eye on my shit—this body, this lost cause, this bad joke— I want to be good at more than just childlessness and tying balloon animals.
When I cast my vote, I become just that tiny, abstract, lost, and essential.
Collage what we can, form fractured and repaired, blend of is and isn’t.
A plastic Kroger’s bag caught in the chinking—Spelter’s only banner.
Rumi advised me to keep my spirit up in the branches of a tree.
Both dogs were barking now—their barking urgent, hysterically pitched.
My first memory is the day of mourning after John Lennon died.
