Nathalie Handal Quotes

The poet I saw once ...
but whose words have long been
in my mind, windows of invincible candles ...

I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem - because in that instant, I am everywhere.