“Neither the glass window, nor the silk sheets will ever be able to save you when it rains.”

“Today, I watched a small bird fly over the open field where I sat on a park bench.”

“In the woods behind the Cock Block—the strip in town with Pini’s Pizza, Wang’s Chinese, Johnson’s Meats, and Woody’s Liquors—there is a clearing overlooking the marsh”

“Earth got swallowed by a planet-eating space whale.”

“It will hurt, but to have any effect it must remain there for some time. Let the pain flow through you, in time you will accept it.”

“The city around me is darkening into evening, streets glowing in dusk. In this moment, surrounded by strangers and history, I feel timeless”

“Carried powerlessly by my momentum, my prowess, my might, my beauty.”

“In the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows there is the word "Sonder." It is defined as "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own”

“I’ll take the hands and backs of the young gods, we’ll level out my heart, we’ll uncarve this wood”

“Neighbor, I’ve got a Solo cup. I press it to the wall behind the toilet; the pipes can be our string.”

“On the Train Through Switzerland

a girl with raven black hair handed me a perfect orange.”

“Sitting on the wide sill of a second floor window of the old farmhouse, alone, there’s no-one else at all.”

These are the sunset ones, she said. Demurring. They stain–

Our lips, she clarified.

“I said goodbye to Bessie the summer I turned twelve.”

“Yes. Twenty . . . twenty minutes. Neck and upper back.” I point over my shoulder to the areas I need massaged.

“This was the Friday Malcolm got to put Christmas away for another year.”

“My sockets slick with sympathy. Your rage
a specter, sentient without pity.”

“When the heat subsided, the frogs rained down like a bill come due.”

“Oh, rolling hills of Erin

With your hearts a tearin'“

“I could barely see through the grimy film
So tired…I closed my eyes
And lay on my side to rest for a while.”