It’s funny how
if you just let go
of things they
will come to
you. That is to say
sometimes. So what
good is such a
generalization?
Ah, it makes you
feel good to say
such things from
time to time,
as if you actually
and really and truly
knew something!
Source: Padgett, Ron. Collected Poems. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Coffee House Press, 2013, p. 415.
“But to say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years and years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again. ”
Seferis, as quoted in Mary Ruefle’s “Madness, Rack, and Honey”, p. 191.
goodnight, death run wild with the conceit be patient, you relieved to see this browstapled face a problem of reference we’ll solve in the morning.
The sky is a very bad parent impatient, grinding its teeth, hyperventilating as its baby wahs and wails and flails and vomits all over its parent's prettiest things and the parent grabs its little darling a little too tight a taut smile a slight tear traps it under an arm and marches into the kitchen opens the dark chemical cabinet under the sink tosses in the nuisance like a lightning-chopped tree trunk crushes a two-family home claps the cabinet closed.