Because, Once Alone, It Is Impossible To

For Me Writing Has Always Felt Like Praying Even When I Wasn't Writing Prayers.

Over My Life As A Teacher, Women Have Been Too Quiet. I'm Quiet Myself. I Don't Think I Said Three Words The Whole Of Graduate School.

Memory Can Make A Thing Seem To Have Been Much More Than It Was.

A Letter Makes Ordinary Things Seem Important.

Everything That Falls Upon The Eye Is Apparition, A Sheet Dropped Over The World's True Workings. The Nerves And The Brain Are Tricked, And One Is Left With Dreams That These Specters Loose Their Hands From Ours And Walk Away, The Curve Of The Back And The Swing Of The Coat So Familiar As To Imply That They Should Be Permanent Fixtures Of The World, When In Fact Nothing Is More Perishable.