"Like our bodies
are made from
gravel,
we seem to 
be too hard on
the teeth.
We seem to chip
away at those 
who try to
swallow us.
Call it a learned
survival
technique, call it,
‘we made our bodies
dangerous so 
hungry things would
have no choice but
to stay away’
:
we are no longer
soft enough
to stay, tiny and
inconvenient,
between their
canines and the
knots they call
hands.
We have begun 
to learn
what it is
to unravel,
a tangle of stone."

"

You’re like the ocean…

Pretty enough on the surface,

but dive down into your depths,

you’ll find beauty most

people never see. Lucky me.

I fell in, headfirst.

"

"It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things."

"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those."

"

How long will you demand I love you?

I’m through, I won’t make
any more flowers for you

I judge you as the trees do
by dying

"

"I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk."

"You are so good. So good, you’re always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you’re gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, don’t it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it."