#wrong norma

[miss-m-calling]

words can squirt sideways, mute and mad; you think they are tools, or toys, or tame, and all at once they burn all your clothes off and you're standing there singed and ridiculous in the glare of the lightning.

Anne Carson, "Snow" (Wild Norma)

[belovedapollo]

from Wrong Norma by Anne Carson

[visajoe]

Anne Carson on incoherence and "the most majestic of orders"

[emcyan]

I=I, anne carson (from wrong norma) // montenegro

[shigeki]

Do I frighten people? Saying there's no back wall? Nothing between you and your heart of darkness? Or if there is, you can't pray to it, you can't write poems about it, you can't compete for its love.

Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

[starsalvation]

—Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

[easternpine]

how do you sustain morale during a long project Lutheran guilt how do you sustain morale during a long project bourbon how do you sustain morale during a long project just smile how do you sustain morale during a long project pills can help

- Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

[crossedmythoughtlessheart]

The Wrong Norma - Anne Carson