“And you know / you’ll never learn / how to go on living. / And worst of all, / you know that, / —in fact— / you will.”

“From beneath his fragments / she emerged. / Stood. / Leapt in small, light bursts, / avoiding the slick black fluids, / and wrapped herself / in her nakedness.”

“soul flutters like sparrow / as I swell to sun / and swallow honey.”