“She is a black statue in a whitewashed wooden chair, a dilapidated board house, sitting still till dusk spreads her silk petticoat across the sagging sky and bats swarm into the evening’s canvas.”

"I digress. Let’s live in digression. We have no other choices.", from the poem Haematology #1

“Poets must snatch out of time the passionate transitory” – Patrick Kavanagh

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -Toni Morrison ”

“I myself am bored / of fig leaves, of shames / I did not choose” – from ‘About Ana’

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