“Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.”
Mary Szybist“I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.”
Mary Szybist“I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.”
Mary Szybist“Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.”
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems