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“I am your little ram,
burying his muzzle in thick grass of your pasture,
folded by you at night, herded by day,
a dedicated dog nipping at my hocks.
The day will come for you to draw
the bright sickle of the moon
across my wooly throat.
Do it with love, without regret.”
― The Earth Avails: Poems
burying his muzzle in thick grass of your pasture,
folded by you at night, herded by day,
a dedicated dog nipping at my hocks.
The day will come for you to draw
the bright sickle of the moon
across my wooly throat.
Do it with love, without regret.”
― The Earth Avails: Poems
“I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.”
― The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
― The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
“You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.”
― In One Person
― In One Person
“[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.”
― Calcutta: Two Years in the City
― Calcutta: Two Years in the City
“She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.”
― My Real Children
― My Real Children
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