It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.

The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.