personal favorites / poetry collections… Plainwater by Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Plainwater
from “Short Talks”
On Orchids
We live by tunneling for we are people buried alive. To me, the tunnels you make will seem strangely aimless, uprooted orchids. But the fragrance is undying. A Little Boy has run away from Amherst a few Days ago, writes Emily Dickinson in a letter of 1883, and when asked where he was going, he replied, Vermont or Asia.
sam of the 10,000 things 
Yes. I loved that book.
Outstanding work. Yes.