Pigeon Quotes

“Night climbs its long underground staircase.
It recalls what it has to tell us.”
― Karen Solie, Pigeon: Poems

“The honourable life
is like timing. One might not have the talent for it.
Take this guy up ahead who's driven 45 minutes
with his turn signal on through this jurisdiction of few exits,
as if the hope of a left is all he's got now
in his one chance on this earth.”
― Karen Solie, Pigeon: Poems

“the only
animal who kills from a distance, noise for a voice
and noise for a home, for whom all places are alike.”
― Karen Solie, Pigeon: Poems

“and language
upend its papers looking for an entry adequate
to the sliced smell of budding
poplars.”
― Karen Solie, Pigeon: Poems

“Where all is visible, so all
may vanish.”
― Karen Solie, Pigeon: Poems