if it's not too late... top 5 (current) favorite poetry lines
oh YES. i love this, josephine, thank you!! unfortunately i haven’t been able to read anything recent, BUT i can still definitely answer this:
#1 from ocean vuong’s “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous”
Beauty despitedaylight. Say you’d kill for it. Unbreakable dawnmounting in your throat.
#2 from barbara jane reyes’s “dear love,”
there are times when missing you hurts. soit comes to this, vying for geography. there is a prayer stuck in mythroat. douse me in gasoline, my love, and strike a match. let’s seethis prayer ignite to high heaven.
#3 from rodney gomez’s “catechism for the missing”
Where do you goif you aren’t bornan adoration?
#4 from richard siken’s “landscape with a blur of conquerors”
I thought of myself as a city and I licked my lips.I thought of myself as a nation and I wrung my hands,I put a thing in your hand. Will you defend yourself?
#5 is nathaniel g. k.’s (@transbucky / @nathanielorion ❤) “You didn’t want someone to love you,”
You didn’t want someone to love you, / you just wanted someone / to watch you die. To come as a lover / and stay as a witness. / Well, here I am — / I never did like to kiss you / with my eyes closed.
ask me my top 5/top 10 anything!