Dee

“none of us are children long enough to love it”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother

“How you can love the world
until there’s nothing left to love
but yourself.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of
catastrophe but not the catastrophe.
Like everyone else, I want a storm I can
dance in.
I want an excuse to change my life.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Speculative poems tracing apocalypse from WWII's Korean comfort women to climate crisis―queer, Asian American, and urgent.

“Just like the life
In which I’m forever a child looking out my window at the night sky
Thinking one day I’ll touch the world with bare hands
Even if it burns.”
― Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems