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“Don’t you wish you were here?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Tumbling from what holds me to the world. / O, to do away with the meat and light of me.”
― Donika Kelly, Bestiary: Poems

“Love will gut you and then ask
you to carry on singing with light on your tongue

—Traci Brimhall, from “Lullaby on Mount Moriah”, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (‎Copper Canyon Press (March 31, 2020)”
― Traci Brimhall, Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod

“The man feels his chest. Am I a ghost?
His lungs reply: You are the bravest stone.”
― Donika Kelly, Bestiary: Poems