The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing Quotes

“Writing implies faith in someone listening,/ different in content but not need/ from the child who cries in the night./ Making is an attack on dying, on chaos,/ on blind inertia, on the second law/ of thermodynamics, on indifference, on cold,/ on contempt, on the silence/ that does not follow the chord resolved,/ the sentence spoken, but the something/ that cannot be said.”
― Marge Piercy, The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing: Poems

“Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.”
― Marge Piercy, The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing: Poems

“The mirror is a pit / more caustic than lye.”
― Marge Piercy, The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing: Poems