Poet or poem or reader, the same

ectoplasm. 

- Diane Seuss

My adult son calls me at noon to ask

if I ever loved his father. How can I

express that marital love is twelve banalities ago?

- Diane Seuss

A word can be overused into emptiness,

which is also a banality, so don’t tell anyone you love them

- Diane Seuss

To return

to the world, I must learn

how to love the world again. My problem

is with the word again.

- Diane Seuss

please don’t tell me flowers

are beautiful and blood clots

are ugly

- diane seuss

I’m not looking for wisdom.

- Diane Seuss

You can’t be simile.

Deep down even

mud is not

comparable. 

- Diane Seuss

Do you think your suffering is exceptional?

Maybe. Maybe not.

The times are strange, no doubt.

- Diane Seuss

The danger

of memory is going

to it for respite. Respite risks

entrapment, which is never

good.

- Diane Seuss

Snuffed and alone in cavernous spaces.

Alone, a misnomer. A word whose

definition I had to find in a dictionary.

Language comes hard. Silence corsets

me.

- Diane Seuss

We’ve fallen into Love’s arms. 

We’re torn by Love’s claws.  

We’re carried by Love’s music. 

- Rumi

What I know of literature, of history, is spotty.

- Diane Seuss

my unscholarlinesss,

my rawness

- diane seuss 

Margaret Atwood. Toni Morrison. Adrienne Rich.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Plath. Sexton. Lorde.

Kate Chopin. Alice Walker. Djuna Barnes.

- Diane Seuss