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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
Cherish your wilderness.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
God serves the choosy. They know what to want.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
Love, we are a small pond.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
... people get confidential at midnight.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
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By AnonymMaxine Kumin
Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.
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