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1. "Proscenium of nearly identical mountain ridges, arched out and downward, one 'after' another, to the valley floor: curtains tied back, a gesture" ~ Rae Armantrout
2. "Evening succeeds evening." ~ Rae Armantrout
3. "I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension." ~ Rae Armantrout
4. "an undiscovered tumor squats on her kidney." ~ Rae Armantrout
5. "The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone." ~ Rae Armantrout
6. "A receipt blown crazily across the parking lot, was, perhaps, a moth." ~ Rae Armantrout
7. "Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture." ~ Rae Armantrout
8. "SimpleComplex systems can arisefrom simple rules.It's notthat we want to survive,it's that we've been druggedand made to actas if we dowhile all the whilethe sea breaksand rolls, painlessly, under.If we're not copying it,we're lonely.Is this the knowledgethat demands to bepassed down?Time is made from swatchesof heaven and hell.If we're not killing it,we're hungry." ~ Rae Armantrout
9. "Ends Meet1Could betime is practice,balance,the actionexecuted in the mindbefore and after.Where does mind end?2We mark a breakwith what has come before,come through the door,down the hatch.Not a clean breakexactly.3Our life was rehearsal,Mother almost saidso that we believedwe would escort herto the futurewhere she could be happy." ~ Rae Armantrout
10. "A sense of mission lostin ink'sjagged outcrops.I was trying to tell myselfwhat I must have knownbeforein a formI wouldn't recognize at first." ~ Rae Armantrout
11. "As a child, I was abandonedin a storymade of trees.Here's the smallgaspof this clearingcome "upon" "again" ~ Rae Armantrout
12. "Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience." ~ Rae Armantrout
13. "I know you by your willingness." ~ Rae Armantrout
14. "But here I hold your dream in my poem." ~ Rae Armantrout
15. "So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade" ~ Rae Armantrout
16. "When I dreamed about flying,it was as a skillI needed to regain." ~ Rae Armantrout
17. "Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries." ~ Rae Armantrout
18. "Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief." ~ Rae Armantrout
19. "I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here." ~ Rae Armantrout
20. "Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy." ~ Rae Armantrout
21. "this route is only one of several imaginary paths." ~ Rae Armantrout
22. "Now light sits in the chairs" ~ Rae Armantrout
23. "Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas." ~ Rae Armantrout
24. "We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love." ~ Rae Armantrout
25. "The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy." ~ Rae Armantrout
26. "We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean." ~ Rae Armantrout
27. "The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious." ~ Rae Armantrout
28. "To reinvent anomalous figments." ~ Rae Armantrout

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