There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper.

Natasha Trethewey

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I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

Natasha Trethewey

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You can get there from here, though there's no going home.
Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been.

"Theories of Time and Space

Natasha Trethewey


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What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

Natasha Trethewey


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That morning, awkward and heavy...

Natasha Trethewey


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The yoke of my birth

Natasha Trethewey


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He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood

Natasha Trethewey


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what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache?

Natasha Trethewey


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I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns

Natasha Trethewey


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Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.

Natasha Trethewey


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