“Another life could have happened to us. I know you know that. But here we are, still a flame held close to untouched lips. And I’ll write a dozen different endings before I’m done.” PoemLove HurtsIn The Direction Of YouA Dozen Different Endings Author:Stephanie Greene
“the last little orb winks behind our mountain Venus peeking one eye over her shoulder I boil water, you dice mushrooms for the sauce remember all the poems we wrote when we were young, I say always about that thin crack between day and night I write you another one right there in the kitchen for old times sake and butter melts on the table old witches know what that means out in the middle of nowhere” Love QuotesPoemLove StoryIn The Direction Of You Author:Stephanie Greene
“and at the end of decades there they are tea splashing clove strong from chipped cups long skirts swaying around ankles giggling from folding chairs in the town square singing along dancing to the didgeridoo a joint passing between their smeared pink lips leaning safe into the only arms they’ve ever trusted all the way to the goddamn end” Love StoryAnother LifeQueer LoveIn The Direction Of You Author:Stephanie Greene
“when they tell you god spoke the world into being they mean Eve moaned from the earth red clay under her fingernails Lilith’s road wrapped all around her like smoke in the air and bigfuckingbang there it all was” CreationEveLilithHereticsIn The Direction Of YouHeretic Daughter Author:Stephanie Greene
“I was always wild territory buried below manicured lawns and once I had ripped pretty flowers from the careful parts of me unearthed keening once I left the whole damn thing open to the sky I touched a place in me too Wild to ever pull weeds again or water plastic grass again or prop the baby tree with sticks again or call my soul cultivated again I was never going down that way” HereticsIn The Direction Of YouHeretic DaughterNever Going Down That Way Author:Stephanie Greene