Mary Ruefle Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. April 16, 1952
Birthday: April 16
Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.
source: Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.206, Wave Books
topic: Mean, Years, Two, Wreckage, Old Trees, Reversal
