firstfullmoon
“If they’d stabbed me to death on the day I was born, it / would have been an act of mercy.”
— Franz Wright, from “Walking to Martha’s Vineyard,” in Walking to Martha’s Vineyard
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lifeinpoetry
“the only animal that smokes a cigarette, that lies down and flies backward in time, that rises and walks to a book and looks up a word heard the telephone ringing in the darkness downstairs and decided to answer no more. And I understand, too well: how many times have I made the decision to dwell from now on in the hour of my death (the space I took up here scarlessly closing like water) and said I’m never coming back”
— Franz Wright, from “The Only Animal”