“Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.”
“Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.”
“You tell them you have a hunger and a thirst. You don't sit at the same table but you have a hunger and a thirst.”
“Please let me know if I am not hereLet me know if I fail to find you thereFor before the dawn I leave the night behind meAnd before my heart I let you leave me behind.”
“…thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.”
“I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.”