Excerpt from a poem by Johanna Skibsrud
(Toronto Quarterly , April 2, 2011)—
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No, I could not love a human being if they
Even if I was a bear
Even if you were a bear
But I am not a bear. And will not eat you. And you are not a bear. And will not eat me. And that is why I could not love you. |
Related material: Into the Bereshit.
See also the remarks on space in Skibsrud's
January 2012 doctoral thesis at the University
of Montreal—
" 'The nothing that is': An Ethics of Absence
Within the Poetry of Wallace Stevens."
— as well as Bull Run I and Bull Run II.