Melissa Lang

“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
                    but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
                                                                        but then he’s still left with his hands.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Jesus said,
But I am "alive"!

It's the same material
but lighter,
summer stuff,

star-coil,
Akhmatova's hair...”
― Jean Valentine

“You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.”
― Louise Glück, Descending Figure