Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant..

My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink..

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it..

If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the love surrounding you like bat….

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle..

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one..

we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was ….

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the….

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at..

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old..

The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place..

Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made..

I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For be….

I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future int….

In a dream you are never eighty..

The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He l….

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and gree….