Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, & the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway & on scraps of surplus paper
—Audre Lorde
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Some words live in my throat
breeding like adders. Others know sun
seeking like gypsies over my tongue
to explode through my lips
like young sparrows bursting from shell.
Some words
Bedevil me.
—Audre Lorde (from 'Coal', 1968)
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