Other Quotes

Question 1

List the quotes for ‘Cozy Apologia’

Answer 1

”- for Fred”
“I could pick anything and think of you-“
“The lamp, the wind-still rain”
“My pen exudes, drying matte, upon the page”
“any hero”
“shooting arrows to the heart”
“chain mail glinting, to set me free”
“One eye smiling, the other firm upon the enemy”

“Today a Hurricane is nudging up the coast”
“Oddly male: Big Bad Floyd”
“daydreams: awkward reminiscences”
“teenage crushes on worthless boys”
“kiss you sensless”
“sissy names”
“Were thin as licorice and as chewy,/Sweet with a dark and hollow center”

“Floyd’s/Cussing up a storm”
“We’re content, but fall short of the Divine”
“it’s embarrassing, this happiness”
“satisfied” “ordinary”
“To keep me from melancholy(call it blues,/ I fill this stolen time with you”

Question 2

List the quotes for ‘Afternoons’

Answer 2

“Summer is fading”
“leaves fall in ones and twos”
“hollows of afternoons”
“Young mothers assemble”
“Setting free their children”
“Behind them, at intervals,/Stand husbands”
“estateful of washing”
“lettered/Our Wedding, lying/Near the television”
“Before them, the wind/Is ruining their courting-places”
“Expect to be taken home”
“Their beauty has thickened.”
“Something is pushing them/To the side of their own lives”