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Poetry is mostly hunches.


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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.



The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.



You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.



Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.



The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.



I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.



Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.



The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes



And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.



In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.





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Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.

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