“Though Myung Mi Kim did say that the poem is really a responsibility to everyone in a social space. She did say it was okay to cramp, to clog, to fold over at the gut, to have to put hand to flesh, to have to hold the pain, and then …
“There are ways in, journeys to the center of a life, through time, through air, matter, dream, and thought. The ways in are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the sweetest place to be. And always, in this search, a …
Henry Moore to his friend Donald Hall: “The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is-it must be something you cannot possibly do.” …
“Think of peace & how the Buddhists say it is found through silence./Think of silence & how Audre Lorde says it will not protect you./Think of silence as a violence, when silence means being made/a frozen sea. Think of speaking as a violence, when speaking is a house/that dresses your …
