âIâm sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.â âRichard Siken from âLittle BeastââYou happened to me. You were as deep down as Iâve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.ââMarilyn Hacker from âNearly a ValedictionââI donât want to be around you. I donât want to drink you in. I want to walk into the heart of you and never walk back out. ââNico Alvarado from âTim Riggins Speaks of WaterfallsââTake me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.ââMargaret Atwood from âThe Good BonesââWhen I donât touch you itâs a mistake in any life, in each place and forever.ââBob Hicok from âOther Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love PoemââWhen I havenât been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs me by the collar and hurls me up against the squad car, so I can remember, at least for a moment, what itâs like to be touched.ââJeffrey McDaniel, âWhen a Man Hasnât Been KissedââKiss the mouth which tells you, here,here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.ââGalway Kinnell from âLittle Sleepâs Head Sprouting Hair in the MoonlightââI will love you forever; whatever happens. Until I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, Iâll drift about forever, all my atoms, until I find you again.ââPhillip Pullman from âThe Amber SpyglassââI wanted to write âstayâ on your sides,surround your bed with oceans of salt.I hope he folds you into a fox, loves you like a splintered arrow, brandishes the kill of your lips. May the bouquet of your hips wither. May the wolves forget your name.ââJ. BradleyâI love you. If you hadnât existed I would have had to invent you.ââElaine Dundy from âThe Dud AvocadoââAnd Iâd choose you; in a hundred different lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, Iâd find you and Iâd choose you.ââKiersten WhiteâThe first time I asked you on a date, after you hung up, I held the air between our phones against my ear and whispered, âYou will fall in love with me. Then, just months later, you will fall out. I will pretend the entire time that I donât know itâs coming.âââMiles Walser âI will come back from the dead for you.ââRichard Siken from âYou Are JeffââDo you want it? Do you want anything I have? Will you throw me to the ground like you mean it, reach inside and wrestle it out with your bare hands? If you love me, Henry, you donât love me in a way I understand.ââRichard Siken from âWishboneââHere we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say âPlease,for just one night, will you lay down next to me? We can leave our clothes on,we can stay all buttoned up?â But we both know how it goesââ I say I want you inside me and you hold my head underwater. I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.ââRichard Siken from âWishboneââEven when Iâm dead, Iâll swim through the Earth like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.ââJeffrey McDaniel
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