Already six years past your age!
The steps in Rome,
the house near Hampstead Heath,
& all your fears
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People wish to be settled. Only as long as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
-- Thoreau
My life has been
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He was six foot four, and forty-six
and even colder than he thought he was
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks
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Baby-witch,
my daughter,
my worship of the Goddess
alone
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We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City.
Nothing would surprise him.
The beast in the jungle was what he saw--
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the sky sinks its blue teeth
into the mountains.
Rising on pure will
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The poet fears failure
& so she says
"Hold on pen--
what if the critics
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I began by loving women
& the love turned
to bitterness.
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"...a frozen memory, like any photo,
where nothing is missing, not even,
and especially, nothingness..."
-- Julio Cortázar, "Blow Up"
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I am not interested
in my body-
the part that stinks
& rots & brings forth
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