Quotes from Rae Armantrout

Ends Meet 1 Could be time is practice, balance, the action executed in the mind before and after. Where does mind end? 2 We mark a break with what has come before, come through the door, down the hatch. Not a clean break exactly. 3 Our life was rehearsal, Mother almost said so that we believed we would escort her to the future where she could be happy.

I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension.

an undiscovered tumor squats on her kidney.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself.

As a child, I was abandoned in a story made of trees. Here's the small gasp of this clearing come "upon" "again

Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself.

The fear that all this will end." "The fear that it won't.

We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.