“I am me in the most undefined, shapeless way possible.”

“Drums beating on every quatrième beat, / Hypnotically locking in its crowd. / Soulful vocals engraving lyrics / Like poetry, asking for respect & unity.”

“the way my heart, having known / you, will continue to echo cavernously / even after your love is chiseled out / from the other crevices of me: / my mind, my soul, my fingernails, etc.”

“When at last we crashed into the shore, /I prayed —I still pray— to the moon’s pull, / to bring us home.”

“Free me from imagining you as the reincarnation of my father / sent to see if I can keep my worthiness under your gaze.”

“I wanted her / to step away from the pond. / Less Narcissus,

more nurturer.”