i am
afraid
that if i
open
myself i will not
stop pouring. (why do i fear
becoming a river. what mountain
gave me such shame.)
Category: Quote
from “Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
“In a poem
people want
something fancy, but even more
they wany something
inexplicable
made plain.
“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day.”
Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry, 1949.
Punch-in-the-Face Poetry 