More favourite passages:
To be defiled is to be recognizable to yourself, she thought.
To be defiled is to be recognizable to yourself, she thought.
last line of "Evaporation 3"
Where do you think you come by your pattern?
from "Moving Around for the Light, a Madrigal"
Smoking is the Bosnian national sport. Everywhere the poets meet to read or discuss poetics, we look across the room at each other through soiled gauze.
from "Bosnia-Herzegovina: Life Is Waiting"
Hospitality's other face, hostility
And then stepped back, measuring him for a haymaker.
*
Each a stranger to the other's strangeness
And she strokes her horned toad in the direction of its spines.
from "Evaporation 4"
...a meadow softly-furred
as a bumble-bee....
*
A song sparrow stops
anting its wing to fulfill
what silence wants, and look: the child's face,
her wet lips, her even teeth--
from "Lovegreen"
...a languorous sine curve of a journey that ends with the brake-smoking descent into an abyss where the beleaguered town of Andacollo has been flung.
*
He started to imagine fighting sadistic force with poems as insubstantial as contrails over a city.
from "Chile: Pigs of Gold"
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