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“When I built my luminous prison around you, you simply lay down at the center of it and died.”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
“And
this letter
I didn't send
how surprising
to find it now.
All this love I must have felt.”
― Space, in Chains
this letter
I didn't send
how surprising
to find it now.
All this love I must have felt.”
― Space, in Chains
“The letters, the fading. The labyrinth, the cake. The four hundred brackish lakes of the brain. She searches for the
music, but she can't find it. Oh, God, it was here
only the other day.”
― Space, in Chains
music, but she can't find it. Oh, God, it was here
only the other day.”
― Space, in Chains
“The aunts gathered around the fiery cake chanting, Make a wish! Make a wish!”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
“And I still walk the sidewalk mumbling
something about how it will all be fine
Fine is its own crazy village on the Rhine
Fine is the name of the cuckoo-clock maker
Fine is the word the cuckoo cries
every hour after hour on the hour—
scrambling out of its dark little hole
like something being chased with a knife by Time”
― Space, in Chains
something about how it will all be fine
Fine is its own crazy village on the Rhine
Fine is the name of the cuckoo-clock maker
Fine is the word the cuckoo cries
every hour after hour on the hour—
scrambling out of its dark little hole
like something being chased with a knife by Time”
― Space, in Chains
“The heart hacked out of the center of an overgrown hedge with an ax
To live beyond the brain”
― Space, in Chains
To live beyond the brain”
― Space, in Chains
“There is dancing and laughter in hell, an angel weeping openly on a park bench in heaven. My mother, dead and frantic in an attic. A white shirt on a floor. An old man in a wheelchair, rubbing his eyes. Here it is, here it is! the occupational therapists sing as they rise to the surface of the earth, smiling, bearing their terrible surprise.”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
“Believable, chronological, but so quickly erased that it only serves to prove that the universe is made of curving, warping space.”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
“So we found ourselves in an ancient place, the very
air around us bound by chains.”
― Space, in Chains
air around us bound by chains.”
― Space, in Chains
“And my wildly troubled love for you, which labored gently in the garden all through June, then tore the flowers up with its fists in July.”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
“Not the bureaucrat's stamp on the folder of our fate. But a knot nonetheless, and not of our making.”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
“They told us it was a dance, a party, a pageant, so we ran laughing together straight into the disaster.”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
“And this
last second or two of dreaming
in which your face
returns to me completely. Not
even needing to be, being
so alive again to me.”
― Space, in Chains
last second or two of dreaming
in which your face
returns to me completely. Not
even needing to be, being
so alive again to me.”
― Space, in Chains
“Why not the Victorians and their sentimental grief-wreaths woven from a loved one's hair?”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
“My memory of your casual smile
This memory, like
a child's bit of sweet embroidery smuggled
out of an asylum”
― Space, in Chains
This memory, like
a child's bit of sweet embroidery smuggled
out of an asylum”
― Space, in Chains
“Even my identity has been kept hidden from me. It is a child's ghost buried in mud. It is an old woman waving at me from a passing train.”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
“My eyes closed, hands open, Take it, take it. Then, every day wasted chasing it.”
― Space, in Chains
― Space, in Chains
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