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“Consider, O Lover, my throat white as cigarette paper. The crushed lavender of my knuckles. My heart, a dulled needle threaded through too many patterns.”

Love Lovers Heartache Hearts Cigarettes Needle

Book:The Wingless

Source: The Wingless

“There are bones waiting for names in the graveyards. Even the sun above us is dying, one landed repetition of light at a time.”

Light Poetry Waiting Bones Graveyards

Book:The Wingless

Source: The Wingless

“If Springtime crawls out of the wild mouths of flowers, then surely, Winter crawls out of mine.”

Poetry Spring Seasons Winter Flowers Wild

Book:The Wingless

Source: The Wingless

“I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons. But in your hands they tremble and fill with song like plump, white birds.”

Hands Poetry Song Lovers Breasts Birds

Book:The Wingless

Source: The Wingless

“Consider my Lover; the yellow church of his skin, the clean wells of his ears; How the notes of a song come to him like birds descending on a power line; How in his absence I am of two throats--each of them cramped.”

Love Song Lovers Longing Birds Skin

Book:The Wingless

Source: The Wingless

“That dandy, the sky, enters blue-suited sun like a scotch in hand.”

Sun Sky Scotch Skies

Book:The Wingless

Source: The Wingless

“Consider, O Lord, how You sit atop the sky; like a man in a glass bottom boat. Consider sky elsewhere; worn thin as a mattress.”

God Poetry Sky Boats Skies Thoughts For The Quiet Hour

Book:The Wingless

Source: The Wingless

“If the sun rolled back like an eye, it would see the mind of God.”

Mind God Poetry Sun Mystical

Book:The Wingless

Source: The Wingless

“Consider the road, long and forked as the Devil’s own tongue. Consider the Devil, burning every bridge; Placing in every tree a black bird. In every bird a black thought.”

Thoughts Devil Birds Roads Burn Bridges

Book:The Wingless

Source: The Wingless