When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces... read more
If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.Highlighted by 7 Kindle customers
You want nothing when you are trying to forget the something that is everything.Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
Disappear into each other. You’d bleed and I wouldn’t. Then we bothHighlighted by 4 Kindle customers
YOU WERE JUST A BOY on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
NOTHING HAPPENED. And everything did.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
I’ll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won’t be.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
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