

“Never ran this hard through the valley
never ate so many stars
I was carrying a dead deer
tied on to my neck and shoulders
deer legs hanging in front of me
heavy on my chest
People are not wanting
to let me in
Door in the mountain
let me in”
― Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
never ate so many stars
I was carrying a dead deer
tied on to my neck and shoulders
deer legs hanging in front of me
heavy on my chest
People are not wanting
to let me in
Door in the mountain
let me in”
― Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

“Jesus said,
But I am "alive"!
It's the same material
but lighter,
summer stuff,
star-coil,
Akhmatova's hair...”
―
But I am "alive"!
It's the same material
but lighter,
summer stuff,
star-coil,
Akhmatova's hair...”
―
“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”
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―

“You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.”
― Crush
― Crush
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