“blessing the boats(at saint mary’s)may the tidethat is entering even nowthe lip of our understandingcarry you outbeyond the face of fearmay you kissthe wind then turn from itcertain that it willlove your backmay youopen your eyes to waterwater waving foreverand may you in your innocencesail through this to that”

“they will empty your eyes of everything you love”

“Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.”

“listen,you a wonder.you a city of a woman.you got a geographyof your own.listen,somebody need a mapto understand you.somebody need directionsto move around you.listen,woman,you not a noplaceanonymousgirl;mister with his hands on youhe got his hands onsomedamnbody!”

“dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.”

“i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you”

“You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking.”