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Jessica Bates
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Kindle ebook now live! Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood
Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood is available as an ebook for the Kindle platform. If you’ve already bought the paperback from Amazon, you can download the ebook for FREE in the Matchstick program. If you haven’t purchased it, it’s incredibly affordable on Kindle, so GO GET IT, Y’ALL.
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“I try to feel my own edges in the
low light. I send my mind to the
outer edges of me — where do I end?
I send myself to my innermost edges,
and I see that in both directions
I am infinite.”
― Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood
low light. I send my mind to the
outer edges of me — where do I end?
I send myself to my innermost edges,
and I see that in both directions
I am infinite.”
― Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood
“I respond to many names.
Sometimes I am different people.
Sometimes I am the me that howls in
the night.
Sometimes I am the sickening silence.
I wear moonlight in my hair and bare
my teeth.”
― Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood
Sometimes I am different people.
Sometimes I am the me that howls in
the night.
Sometimes I am the sickening silence.
I wear moonlight in my hair and bare
my teeth.”
― Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood
“One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well.”
― Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood
― Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood
“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.”
― 2666
― 2666
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Thanks for the friend request, Jessica, and all the lovely things you said. I'm not a blogger. I wish I had the dedication for stuff like that. Let me know how the book club meeting goes. I bet you're not the only odd one out on TNC. A lot of people I've spoken to go 'story, what story' when we talk about that book.
I haven't, I'm only about halfway through..but you should totally buy it, I can tell it's worth the $6.50!
Read this bio! It does a good job explaining the book so far! (:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...
