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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby. . . it inspires him.

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There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

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

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

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

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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.

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

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