"But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole."
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"Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins."
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"I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box."
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"...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full."
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"Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!"
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"We are all writing God's poem."
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"Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden."
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"I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere."
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"Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren"
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"It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious"
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"I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair."
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"Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen."
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"The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death."
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"I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people."
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"Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question."
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"The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me."
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"You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit."
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"The sanest thing in this world is love."
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"I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life."
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"There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss."
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