Deborah Keenan Quotes

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Dark edges of fish caught in November's freeze
glint like knives through lake's ice.

Deborah Keenan

Badness has such energy
it can drive the goodness from your soul
and leave you bad, even if you've practiced
goodness, and have been walking down the road
to grace all your life.

Deborah Keenan

There have been so many answers
they have all been right.

Deborah Keenan

My children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at...

Deborah Keenan

Father. I write all my poems so I may bury you more kindly.
Father. I write all my poems to keep you alive.

Deborah Keenan

This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.

Deborah Keenan

My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.

Deborah Keenan