Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. 1963
You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.
source: "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, July 2, 2015.
topic: Past, World, Flesh, Cupboards