When you stand on bare earth in your bare feet and lightning whips through you, two ways at once, they say you are grounded,
and that’s what poetry is: a hot wire.
Margaret Atwood, from The Door (via victoriajoan)
When you stand on bare earth in your bare feet and lightning whips through you, two ways at once, they say you are grounded,
and that’s what poetry is: a hot wire.