#brittany adames

[apparentlyquotes]

"I'm finally reading all about love, and you wouldn't believe what I've learned to deify."

Brittany Adames, Locally Real, published in The Brooklyn Rail, Volume 23, Issue 9

[wendymydarling]

I cannot look at photos because there / are truths too incomplete to choke on

— from "Cutting board" by Brittany Adames

[lifeinpoetry]

6.   I feel fatigued.

A: Extraordinarily. This mussed curl is occasional, trying to find name in a sunken chest. I have swallowed the way in which blanket becomes flesh and body sinks into mattress like a metaphor. Then, it becomes a swollen memory. Then, a thread. Then, nothing.

— Brittany Adames, from “Depression Screening Test,” published in Cosmonauts Avenue