For a short while, our mothers bodies
are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of
the world.
Once we no longer live beneath our
mother's heart, it's the earth
with which we form the same dependent
relationship.
His thoughts swam between us, hidden
under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling
my own words like baits and lures.
I think a title is like a magnet.
It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory
to it. Eventually, it collects a book.
Here I am, where I ought to be.
A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love
and be irritated with.
They were so strong in their beliefs
that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs
were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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