Readers Record
“Images”

1) “Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implications outside themselves” (p. 85)
2) “And when they find him, his mouth, his throat, his lungs
Full of the gold that took him, he lies still, not seeing the world” (p. 87)
3) “I peeled my oranges
That was so bright against
The gray of December
That, from a distance,
Someone might have thought
I was making fire with my hands” (p. 90)
4) “Nothing. Not the small sound my sister makes, turning
Over, not the thump of the dog’s tail

When he opens one eye to see him stumbling back to bed
Still drunk, a little bewildered.” (p. 91)

5) “You cannot turn your back upon a dream, / for phantoms have their reasons when they come.” (p. 90)