“My long smooth neck had felt only kisses and the warmth of winter scarves. Your neck was bleeding, raw, and could scarecely endure a swallow, a breath, the bandage I'd wrapped clumsily around your lifetime of injuries.” LoveCarePainSuicideHelpHelplessness Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings Source: But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings
“We may have been flawless then— but look at us now. Look how we shine. Look at the map we've made in these fractures— in all the places where the world got its hands on us.” LoveWisdomPainGrowthRelationshipsMarriageResilienceReconciliationBreakupsTime Passing Book:But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings Source: But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings