Цитаты из книги Night Sky with Exit Wounds

loneliness is still time spent with the world.

Then we danced without knowing it: my shadow deepening his on the shag.

the spine won’t remember its wings no matter how many times our knees kiss the pavement.

Dear god, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through to get here.

Even sweetness can scratch the throat

If I close my eyes no one can hurt me.

They say the sky is blue but I know it’s black seen through too much distance.

we live like water: wetting a new tongue with no telling what we’ve been through.

Maybe we pray on our knees because god only listens when we’re this close to the devil.

Say amen. Say amend.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Understand me / when I say I burn best / when crowned / with your scent

All you want is to run into the woods & beg the wolf to fuck you up.

He dies at the party where everyone laughs & all you want is to go into the kitchen & make seven omelets before burning down the house.

your palms two puddles of rain.

light keeps its shadow by swallowing it.

But what if I broke through the skin’s thin page anyway & found the heart not the size of a fist but your mouth opening to the width of Jerusalem.

The only motive that there ever was was to ... keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them. Jeffrey Dahmer

this is how we loved: a knife on the tongue turning into a tongue.

My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.