Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.
— Li-Young Lee Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
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Moonlight and high wind. Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.
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That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.
— Li-Young Lee Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
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My tongue remembers your wounded flavor. The vein in my neck adores you. A sword stands up between my hips, my hidden fleece sends forth its scent of human oil.
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A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.
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I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,
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