They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSONAll human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
ANNE CARSONWhen I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSONWhat makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
ANNE CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONWe humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSONA page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSONWords bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONWe are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
ANNE CARSON