Spencer

“I finally have answers to the questions I taught my mother not to ask but now she won’t ask them”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“now the math seems obvious blue water plus yellow sun equals green plants it’s almost too simple to speak I am inconsolable I need pondfoam and boxed wine in a coffee mug or soothing saffron and bay leaves I need to be poured dry instead of this slow seeping it hurts to even think about the leak in my brain where brackish water trickles in and memory trickles out with what do I mend a hole like that answer me with what”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“It’s serious business, this living. As long as the earth continues its stony breathing, I will breathe. When it stops, I will shatter back into gravity. Into quartz.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“I’ve lost the unspendable coin I wore around my neck that protected me from you, leaving it bodyhot in the sheets of a tiny bed in Vermont. If you could be anything in the world you would.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf