Kirli Saunders > Quotes

“I've left blue letters
on the windowsill
for you
since I was a child.

...
to remind you
that we were once lovers

a lifetime ago.”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“You wade
exhausted to the
shore--
where reminders
lap at your flesh
and promise that

it won't always be like this.”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“We were there
to race the sun,
to sit breathless
above golden clouds
before the dawn”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“I press my fingertips
to the scars of your forearm
the trail the stitch marks
as my eyes well,

and you tell me
that your insides
aired themselves that day.”
― Kirli Saunders

“read
that poem
and pen your own
...
sit
with the sun
and the moon
who sit always by you”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“lie in fields of flowers
and hear their petals hum”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“My walk home
in spring
smells like
childhood piano lessons
dipped in jasmine
tapped out
like three note songs on
elevated on telephone books”
― Kirli Saunders

“I sing you to me
each night still

with chords
silently spoken

to the folds
of your soul

A melody--
magnetised
atom and ion
to pull you
in my direction.

To harmonise.”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“in peony lips
and bee sting nips

in velvety nape
like petal”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“contemplate
why honeysuckle always
climbs the tree clockwise

if it is the sun
who chases
the moon
or vice versa”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred