"even when she was right, she was wrong." p. 127

"so many questions/northern born." p. 123

"all night it is the one breast/comforting the other." p. 117

"what entered the light was one man./what walked out is another." p. 27

"and it seemed like dancing/as when we angels/praise among the clouds" p. 32

"but there's no future/in those clothes/so I take them off and/wake up/dancing." p. 41

"all of the clocks strike/NO." p. 43

"mothering/has made it strong," p. 48

"white lady/what do we have to pay/to repossess our children." pp. 60-61

"he was the first thing she saw/and she blamed him." p. 63

"beautiful and faithful and ancient/and female and brave." p. 64.

"it is your own lush self/you hunger for." p. 75.

"and may you in your innocence/sail through this to that." p. 82.

"who will hold her,/who will find...