Author: M. P. Cooley

Cites

• William Stafford (1)
  • IN: Ice Shear (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.
    FROM: Ask Me, (1981), Poem, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Flame Out (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A stranger drowned on the Black Sea alone, with no one to hear his prayers for forgiveness.
    FROM: "Storm on the Black Sea", (None), Song, Ukraine
• Jehanne Dubrow (1)
  • IN: Flame Out (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Each morning my mother's velvet purse wilted on a chair, empty of midnight contents: ruby lipstick, tiny lake of a pocket mirror.
    FROM: "Fancy", (2010), Poem, US