“I don't know if I have ever truly believed that everyone deserves love. But if I had to take it one moment further into those shadowed valleys of heartfull, I would admit that I do believe that love, deserves everyone.”

“Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant.”

“Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest.”

“He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it.”

“He left the next morning, searching for a city with light that reminded him of me. He would mail me empty envelopes and boxes, I would take them into my closet, shut the door, and quickly open them. A flash of foreign light would fill the room, but only for a moment. I would whisper ‘this is what we’re like, this is what we’re like.’…”

“She told me there was a place on my face she wanted to inhale.”

“and you taste / of the memory of god abandoned.”

“there are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.”

“I don't know if I have ever truly believed that everyone deserves love. But if I had to take it one moment further into those shadowed valleys of heartfull, I would admit that I do believe that love, deserves everyone.”

“I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.”

“I negate this distance with / what it would be / to be shining you.”