“Imagine, I can't stop saying. Imagine, I beg,
when I should have said, Look: paradise
is both a particle and a wave. You don't have
to believe in something for it to startle you awake.”
― The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
when I should have said, Look: paradise
is both a particle and a wave. You don't have
to believe in something for it to startle you awake.”
― The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
“She ran down the spine of the house, her body a shiver traveling over the staircase.”
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
“I forgive them
their unhappiness,
I forgive them
for walking out of the world.
But I don't forgive them
for turning their faces away,
for taking off their veils
and dancing for death —
for hurtling
toward oblivion
on the sharp blades
of their exquisite poems, saying:
this is the way.
~
I was, of course, all that time
coming along
behind them, and listening
for advice.
~
And the man who merely
washed Michelangelo's brushes, kneeling
on the damp bricks, staring
every day at the colors pouring out of them,
lived to be a hundred years old.”
― Dream Work
their unhappiness,
I forgive them
for walking out of the world.
But I don't forgive them
for turning their faces away,
for taking off their veils
and dancing for death —
for hurtling
toward oblivion
on the sharp blades
of their exquisite poems, saying:
this is the way.
~
I was, of course, all that time
coming along
behind them, and listening
for advice.
~
And the man who merely
washed Michelangelo's brushes, kneeling
on the damp bricks, staring
every day at the colors pouring out of them,
lived to be a hundred years old.”
― Dream Work
“You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen
to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.”
― Dream Work
of my life, and anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen
to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.”
― Dream Work
“What are we really?” she asked. “What do you mean?” “Is it our blood that makes us who we are?”
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
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