“To insist that one’s pain is complex can feel cringey, withering. But it is. Complex. One’s love, too.” LovePainComplexityCringeworthy Author:Kaveh Akbar
“I'm becoming more a vessel of memories than a person it's a myth / that love lives in the heart it lives in the throat we push it out / when we speak when we gasp we take a little for ourselves / in books love can be war-ending a soldier drops his sword / to lie forking oysters into his enemy's mouth in life we hold love up to the light / to marvel at its impotence” LovePoetryGrief Book:Calling a Wolf a Wolf Source: Calling a Wolf a Wolf
“If a great winged angel had come up from the earth and burst apart, I would have gathered its feathers” LovePossibilityKissAngels Book:Martyr! Source: Martyr!
“America I warn you if you invite me into your home I will linger, losing, kissing my beloveds frankly, pulling up radishes and capping all your pens.” LoveAmericaPoetryPoemImmigrantsAmerican DreamAmericans Author:Kaveh Akbar