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I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.

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In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

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People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

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Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

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Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.

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While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

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