C.D. Wright Cooling Time [random 1] for meg in chicago

It falls on the sweet neck of poetry to keep the rain-pitted face of love from leaving us once and for all.
p. 53


Quoting Tranströmer:
                 We got dressed and showed the house
                 You live well the visitor said
                 The slum must be inside you.
p. 54


Quoting Simone Weil:
     "One is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it."
p. 55