Mark Strand Quote

Now you invent the boat of your flesh and set it upon the waters and drift in the gradual swell, in the laboring salt. Now you look down. The waters of childhood are there.


Where Are the Waters of Childhood? (1978)


Now you invent the boat of your flesh and set it upon the waters and drift in the gradual swell, in the laboring salt. Now you look down. The waters...

Now you invent the boat of your flesh and set it upon the waters and drift in the gradual swell, in the laboring salt. Now you look down. The waters...

Now you invent the boat of your flesh and set it upon the waters and drift in the gradual swell, in the laboring salt. Now you look down. The waters...

Now you invent the boat of your flesh and set it upon the waters and drift in the gradual swell, in the laboring salt. Now you look down. The waters...