moonie

“I would light the world on fire just to dance in the flames with you”
― Edgar Holmes, For When She's Feeling Blue

“But mostly we’re forgetting we’re dead stars too, my mouth is full/ of dust and I wish to reclaim the rising—/ to lean in the spotlight of streetlight with you, toward/ what’s larger within us, toward how we were born./

Look, we are not unspectacular things,/ we’ve come this far, survived this much. What/ would happen if we decided to survive more?”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying

“I don’t know how to hold this truth,
so I kill it, pin its terrible wings down
in case, later, no one believes me.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying

“All the world is moving, even sand from one shore to another
is being shuttled. I live my life half afraid, and half shouting
at the trains when they thunder by. This letter to you is both.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying