“I will say I just woke up one day and I was a still photo in everyone else’s home but my own. or I will say I promise that my legs just need another “I will say I just woke up one day and I was a still photo in everyone else’s home but my own. or I will say I promise that my legs just need another season, and then I will be who you fell in love with again. and then probably just I’m sorry that there was once a tremendous blue sky and then a decade of hard, incessant rain.�
the last few poems in this collection are a masterclass in how to arrange poetry for maximum effect. i could not have put the book down if i tried...more
very mid on this. the orange & a few others save themselves from my hatred of rhyme but overall i’m not very interested or moved by this kind of poetrvery mid on this. the orange & a few others save themselves from my hatred of rhyme but overall i’m not very interested or moved by this kind of poetry...more
“Lord, if I say Bless the cold water you throw on my face, does that make me a costume party. Am I greedy for comfort if I ask you not to kill my frien“Lord, if I say Bless the cold water you throw on my face, does that make me a costume party. Am I greedy for comfort if I ask you not to kill my friends; if I beg you to press your heel against my throat—not enough to ruin me, but just so—just so I can almost see your face—�