“love is giving everything too easily then staying to try and claw it back” LovePoetryRelationshipsHeartbreak Book:Physical Source: Physical
“he looks the way silence looks before it’s broken” SilenceGaze Book:Every Salt Advance Source: Every Salt Advance
“Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down.” LoveSelfPoetryEnergyFearHonestDangerousExcitementTrueThreateningBurnSparkFizz Author:Andrew McMillan
“the toilet is an intimacy only shared with parents when you are young and once again when they are older and with lovers when say on a Sunday morning stretching into the bathroom you wake to the sound of stream into bowl and go to hug the naked body stood with its back to you and kiss the neck and taste the whole of the night on there and smell the morning’s pale yellow loss and take the whole of him in your hand and feel the water moving through him and knowing that this is love the prone flesh what we expel from the body and what we let inside” LoveBodyYoungLoversTasteSmellFleshParentsIntimacyOlder Book:Physical Source: Physical