“The best thing was to let language speak its piece while standing inside it–not like a knight in armor exactly, not like a mascot in a chicken suit.
-Rae Armantrout
“I don’t expect the anxiety to go away
but I want the anxiety to know
its place in the scheme of things
of which I seem to consist.
I want anxiety to be
not an attention getter or star,
but faceless, like a butler bearing trays”
-Michael Dennis Brown
“The hunger as big as a bear.”
-Alberto Ríos
“An unsettled feeling keeps the body front and center. The wrong words enter your day like a bad egg in your mouth.”
-Claudia Rankine
The Simile Museum 