Linda Pastan Quotes.
I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from “After an Absence”]
Grief is a circular staircase.
Spring is the shortest season.
I am tired of the litany
of months, September October
I am tired of the way the seasons
keep changing, mimicking
the seasons of the flesh
which are real and finite.
of months, September October
I am tired of the way the seasons
keep changing, mimicking
the seasons of the flesh
which are real and finite.
Evil is simply
a grammatical error:
a failure to leap
the precipice
between “he”
and “I.
a grammatical error:
a failure to leap
the precipice
between “he”
and “I.
Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.
What we want is never simple.
