āIām sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.ā āRichard Siken from āLittle BeastāāYou happened to me. You were as deep down as Iāve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.āāMarilyn Hacker from āNearly a ValedictionāāI donāt want to be around you. I donāt want to drink you in. I want to walk into the heart of you and never walk back out. āāNico Alvarado from āTim Riggins Speaks of WaterfallsāāTake me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.āāMargaret Atwood from āThe Good BonesāāWhen I donāt touch you itās a mistake in any life, in each place and forever.āāBob Hicok from āOther Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love PoemāāWhen I havenāt 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 itās like to be touched.āāJeffrey McDaniel, āWhen a Man Hasnāt Been KissedāāKiss the mouth which tells you, here,here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.āāGalway Kinnell from āLittle Sleepās Head Sprouting Hair in the MoonlightāāI 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, Iāll drift about forever, all my atoms, until I find you again.āāPhillip Pullman from "The Amber SpyglassāāI wanted to write āstayā 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.āāJ. BradleyāI love you. If you hadnāt existed I would have had to invent you.āāElaine Dundy from āThe Dud AvocadoāāAnd Iād choose you; in a hundred different lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, Iād find you and Iād choose you.āāKiersten WhiteāThe first time I asked you on a date, after you hung up, I held the air between our phones against my ear and whispered, āYou will fall in love with me. Then, just months later, you will fall out. I will pretend the entire time that I donāt know itās coming.āāāMiles Walser āI will come back from the dead for you.āāRichard Siken from āYou Are JeffāāDo 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 donāt love me in a way I understand.āāRichard Siken from "WishboneāāHere we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say āPlease,for just one night, will you lay down next to me? We can leave our clothes on,we can stay all buttoned up?ā But we both know how it goesāā 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.āāRichard Siken from "WishboneāāEven when Iām dead, Iāll swim through the Earth like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.āāJeffrey McDaniel
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