Strangely Marked Metal Quotes

“Like boulders rolled away from doors,
like meteors, things rumbling
in my brain ask me
to go out like Moses
into some wilderness.”
― Kay Ryan, Strangely Marked Metal

“HEAVENS NEED FURNACES
Heavens need furnaces,
The factories where dross
converts to light gasses.
The sloughed skins of dreams
are instant fuel, remarkably
full of oil like creosote
bushes. Your worst losses
warm angels; despair puts
a glint on God’s hair. And
the nicest surprise is
the substance that rises
when you know you can’t
get there from here.”
― Kay Ryan, Strangely Marked Metal