“When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.” WantWellsPersonsDiesParentBehindsExistenceBoysPiecesMinutesDyingColdPleaseStandingWindowScaredDinnerKitchenScareNot AfraidWetHelloCandyLitBehind YouRefrigeratorsMoodySuffocating Author:Zachary Schomburg
“Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!” AgeTodayForgetBoysFivePiecesSweetFlowerSorrowThousandTenGoldLet MeHorseWineCoatsFurMy BoysFur CoatsSweet Wine Author:Li Bai
“I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.” ThinkingWantLongEnoughGivenHeavenBoysPiecesGloryFairsPressesRewardsPieFleetingGood Boy Author:Jack White
“A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is suffering. I would gladly give myself to be cut up into pieces if that would ease his suffering." Such is the love of God for people. He pitied people so much that he wanted to suffer for them, like their own mother, and even more. But no one can understand this great love without the grace of the Holy Spirit.” PeopleIfsInspirationalGivingLittlesSaidWantedChristianSpiritMotherCertainSufferingFatherReligiousBoysGracePiecesCuttingHolySickGod LoveEaseHoly SpiritOrthodoxMonkGreat LoveLittle Boys Author:Silouan the Athonite
“To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.” DoeLiteratureBoysPiecesMeditationThousandMassPriestsVocationAltars Book:The Priest Is Not His Own Source: The Priest Is Not His Own
“A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!” MenGivingMindWellsHeartArtTwoHomeDreamMightNightHopeWishSleepSinBoysStudyPiecesMagicMastersDadCreaturesGiving UpCatQuittingNoiseBossComing HomeLocksChasingShatteredWorkshopsHopes And DreamsBundlesPintsJailerMagic WordsMagical Creatures Author:Alan Beck
“I actually loved to dress like a boy, and I still kind of do and try to sneak boy's pieces into my wardrobe. I have Levi's boot cut jeans that actually might be from the boy's department, but I love them. Those jeans and flannel are my favorites. If I could choose anything to wear for the rest of my life, I'd just want a boy's outfit.” IfsWantTryingKindStillsMightBoysPiecesCuttingDressesIf I CouldDepartmentBootsJeansWardrobeSneakLike A BoyFlannelsLevi's Author:Analeigh Tipton