When a poet asserts she has the voice of no, does that mean she has it - has got that voice down, can do that voice - and wants to know it from the inside in order to get past it, or wants to doubt it, so that she and we can get on to the positive change we seek? Or is, finally, that voice her voice?
Yom Kippur 1945
Shhhhhhhhh
You have to know something
The voice of no
paddling ladders (PoemTalk #11)