"The hunters hang onto their man/And merrily pass by/Where I scot-free and you scot-free/Stand in the shadow of Why."

"Born of a war, I was always aching and straining/To nuzzle myself into peace./Peace when it came was hunted and haunt…"

"My spoon was lifted when the bomb came down/That left no face, no hand, no spoon to hold./A hundred thousand died in …"

"Hungry, not one word here/is as good as bread."

"they swarmed everywhere,/the unwritten poems."

"They went hunting lions/But a flea attacked them/And their hunters' passion/Narrowed to a flea."

"No god came down, my brothers,/To breathe on them, my sisters./Their bodies made a mountain/That never touched the he…"

"I learned the speech of birds; now every tree/Screams out to me a baleful prophecy."

"Excuse me for living,/But, since I am living,/Given inches, I take yards,/Taking yards, dream of miles/And a landscap…"

"I was, I did, but I will let it be./Tonight I must hold dear/Whatever brought me here."