Dark Sky Question (Barnard New Women Poets Series)

100 Favorite Books of Poetry (100 books items)

""Solar Wind" I don’t pray. I just walk out there where it’s thin with my bow and aim. But I should have yelled. I should have changed the world. A person can die of balance, just gleam like squid and disappear. The fence around our house is soft with rain. It can’t stop my arrows. It can’t stop what wants to happen, the meteors I hear, power lines blowing from the mountain, or the girl somewhere who reads you, whose skin has memorized your life. Nothing stops her fingers; they swim"

Read in 2016 (97 books items)

"Excerpt from "Prowler's Universe" "When will I give up my love of pain? When I am equal to the whole world. When I roll over, and the empty sky is perfect." "Holy Ghost" "All my thoughts of you are good ones. The horse whose neck is clothed with thunder-- they are good ones. The voice that shakes the wilderness--good ones. I think about how, if I could wake up, I could go to your life, how that would be good, if I could wake up. But where I am is so large. You are a fly. You are impossible."