She believed she could but she didn't because she was too tired.
By now, she must know every word he is going to say. Yet she kisses his mouth and the eyes of his face, she kisses his hands, his truth, his marrow.
Anne Carson,  “To Burgos,” The Anthropology of Water, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry 
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