Quotes from Bill Knott

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.

From heart to heart a heartbeat staggers, looking for a haven. Bereft. It is easier to enter heaven than to pass through each others' eyes

The only response to a child's grave is to lie down before it and play dead.

FOOTNOTE All of us who lived on Earth and all our loves and wars may not appear at all in the moon's memoirs.

If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I amunder their lids, growing black.

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.