“It seems too often that people my age identify as a dead thing
Anyway I could have loved you endlessly”
(STOP GODDAMN APOLOGIZING, Sarah Jean Alexander)
“You grew up, you were struck by lightning. / When you opened your eyes, you were wired forever to your true love.
It only happened once.”
(Prism, Louise Glück)
“I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.” (My Mother, Georges Bataille)
“We know Lilith ate / the bones of her enemies. We know / a bitch learns to love her own ghost.” (All of Us, Erika L. Sánchez)
“O Lover, sing of the knives we held at our hearts, sweet as sex on the tongue. I’m holding all my longing between my stomach & my throat.” (Mercy, Yves Olade)
“I didn’t
intend to meet you & you yourselves were
probably hoping for better. But isn’t this
how it happens? Aren’t all great
love stories, at their core,
great mistakes?”
(To the Guanacos at the Syracuse Zoo, Chen Chen)
“I used to be a heretic from the world— / Then romance washed over me. I think I might believe.” (This Morning, Jane Yeh)
“In my dreams I am kissing your mouth and you’re whispering ‘where have you been?’ I say, ‘I’ve been lost but I’m here now. You’re the only person who has ever been able to find me.’” (Sue Zhao)
“You kiss the back of my legs and I want to cry. Only / the sun has come this close, only the sun.” (GPS, Shauna Barbosa)
“Perhaps we are always hurtling our bodies toward
the thing that will obliterate us, begging for love
from the speeding passage of time”
(The Leash, Ada Limón)
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