Pascale Petit > Quotes

“I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught”
― Pascale Petit, What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo

“Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.”
― Pascale Petit, What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo

“I think of the coal grease    black dust and memories that burn slow as anthracite how some colours don’t fade however deep they’re buried how even a dowry of rags smouldering in a box can flare in a winter grate and how    to own the country of her birth a woman might have to wear a fire”
― Pascale Petit, Tiger Girl