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And of all the rooms in my childhood,
God was the largest
and most empty.

The earth is flat. Those who fall off don't return. The earth is round. All things reveal themselves to men only gradually. I

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

Memory is sweet.
Even when it's painful, memory is sweet.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

Every time you write a poem it's apocalyptic. You're revealing who you really are to yourself.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

Some things never leave a person:
scent of the hair of one you love,
the texture of persimmons,
in your palm, the ripe weight.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

Moonlight and high wind.
Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,

A poem is like a score for the human voice.

But, no one
can tell without cease
our human
story, and so we
lose, lose

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

Memory revises me.