“you were sixteen and slender and kept wrecking your thin hips against mine. What the hell was I supposed to do?”Tagged: Sex, Youth, young
“they loved us, those stars. They must have, anyway, for they did what no one did, what even we could not: they saw us and spared us.”Tagged: Nature, Stars, Night Sky, Looking At The Stars, Shadows
“I know about the stars. That night they made shadows of us, made us bigger, wilder than we were--”Tagged: Nature, Stars, Night Sky, Looking At The Stars, Shadows
“they leaned into everything: cigarettes and stories, nips of whiskey, / laughter like blackbirds rising across a white sky.”Tagged: Nature, Laughter, Connecting To Nature, Life, Human Connection
“And we danced / with tall grass, wind, and sunrise, drove the next day a two-lane that slid / like a lover across the plain.”Tagged: Nature, Driving, Going West, Driving West, Highways
“How her own body warmed as the world warmed, / how like riding home in the whole-sky spill of spring rain / there was no clean line between her and it.”Tagged: Body, Female Body, Warmth, Nature, Rain
“I suppose it was just old, I suppose it was just its time, or maybe it was only some stray image, twisted minute of a dream, broken bit of a story I've taken for memory. I could do it, I think. It's like religion that way. You simply begin to believe.”Tagged: Memory, Faith, Growing Up, moving, Change