"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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A poem is not its words, but the ringing it leaves behind.