"Knot by knot I untie myself from the past
And let it rise away from me like a balloon.
What a small thing it becomes.
What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue."
— Charles Wright, closing lines to “Arkansas Traveller,” from The Other Side of the River (Vintage Books, 1984)
And let it rise away from me like a balloon.
What a small thing it becomes.
What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue."
— Charles Wright, closing lines to “Arkansas Traveller,” from The Other Side of the River (Vintage Books, 1984)
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