Collette Smith

“I poured everything I had into you and you were still empty.”
― Iviva Olenick

“…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.”
― Billy Collins, Questions About Angels

“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up

I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go

I know
nothing

but I am here to learn.”
― Shane Koyczan

“Wait until
a year from now
where you say,
“Holy fuck,
I can’t believe I was going to kill myself before I etcetera’d…
before I went skinny dipping in Tennessee,
made my own IPA,
tried out for a game show,
rode a camel drunk,
learned to waltz with clumsy old people,
photographed electric jellyfish,
built a sailboat from trash,
taught someone how to read,
ect. Ect. Etc.”


The red washing
down the bathtub
can’t change the color of the sea
at all.”
― Derrick Brown