Quotes from David Wagoner

Displaced by darkness, you lie flat on your back, putting the world behind you, and stare at the moon, the embarrassing moon, with nothing to offer it, no ebb or flow, no wolfish transformations except this lunacy you keep to yourself

Wherever you are is called Here and you must treat it as a powerful stranger.

You should stay alive As often as possible and keep yourself open to anything out of place and everything with nowhere else to go, to carry what's left of your voice out and beyond, into, over, and under, past, within, outside, between, among, across, along, and up and around and to be beside yourself when the spirit moves you…

They show us more often Than not how to die At the same time and in more ways Of doing both, of taking the first Out of the heart of the other And spreading it around…

We'd have to dance beforehand anywhere else but here, where rain is already happening, how simple it all seems to persuade the gods to bring their heaven down, to shower us with that most comfortable answer to a prayer; results before the fact.

In case of snow Drifting toward winter, Don't try to stay awake through the night, afraid of freezing-- The bottom of your mind knows all about zero; It will turn you over And shake you till you waken. -- David Wagoner

In case of snow Drifting toward winter, Don't try to stay awake through the long winter night, afraid of freezing-- The bottom of your mind knows all about zero; It will turn you over And shake you till you waken. -- David Wagoner