“How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare for a fishing trip. Probably for much the same reason that you seem to need 30 pairs of shoes for one pair of feet, I nearly said, but decided to live for another day.” NeedsLooksSaidReasonSeemsSeaFeetRiversDecidedShoesLipsFishesBoatLakesFishingPairsAnother DayPair Of Shoes Author:Tony Bishop
“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.” IfsWould BeEyeLyingSeaStonesBlessedShoesRefuseBoatThroatBeing Blessed Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton