About Mark Doty: Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist, and the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into...
Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?
