Status Updates From Burnings

“When I was seven, I believed everything
obeyed the laws of clocks. That if I held still
their needles, my father's fist would stop
just before my mother's perfect nose
and the song on the radio would play forever
the word—love.”
how can one write a book where every single line is just THIS perfectly placed

“There are men who carry dreams
over mountains, the dead
on their backs.
But only our mothers
can walk with the weight
of a second beating heart.”
cannot wait till his new release i might explode before that