A vocabulary of objects and occurrences, properly arranged, induces illumination.
--Caliban, Afterthoughts
A toothless old man wants to send his false teeth on a round-the-world
cruise. He wants to send his shoes to college. Meanwhile, the darkness
thickens.
--Russell Edson, Cursing The Dark
From where I sit, I can see other
things: a silver porcupine, pins
standing upright. It is a vanished tale of a
vanished forest at the shore of a vanished ocean.
--Keith Waldrop, An Apparatus
What did the mouse ask of the trap?
What did the wound say to the knife?
What does bread sing to wine
and soap to water?
--Philip Levine, Don't Ask
The width of an awning--no closer
than that will I approach you
--Kirsti Simonsuuri, An Awning, The Senses
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