American Biographies

Barbara Kingsolver

In feigned completeness I would walk the lonely
longest distance between all points and all others
because in their connection my geometry will have
been faithful to its own imagined laws.

~ from "American Biographies" in ANOTHER AMERICA by Barbara Kingsolver

Another America

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