I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.

- Heather Mchugh

I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. T…

- Heather Mchugh

Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break t…

- Heather Mchugh

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took.

- Heather Mchugh