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Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry) QUOTES

Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry) QUOTES

1 " She asks me how my heart is,
and I say, 'beating.'
That's never the answer you want, and I am sorry about that. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

2 " I'm sorry that when you say 'love', I
always hear
'heartbreak'. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

3 " Your own hands falling out to catch you
before you hit the ground. All the ways
you save yourself even when you
don't want to.

Love is the way your body fights to
keep you alive.
Day after day after day. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

4 " Two oceans away, a boy is falling in love.
Next door, another boy i just falling.
One is laughing, one is crying -
both are screaming. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

5 " A HOW-TO ON DISAPPEARING

No one understands the way we break.
Not jagged. Not knife sliding between ribs.
Not the spine, cracking.

That would be too easy.

That would be being able to know that
you're broken. That would be X-rays
showing the gaps, the fissures.
Clean breaks are easier to heal.
We do not break cleanly.

We break without breaking.
Not a crack, but a fog.
We dissipate.
Body here one moment and
not here the next.

Hands working one moment and
a dead weight the next.

We watch ourselves turn
colourless. Watch ourselves
become invisible / invincible.

This way, at least the pain is our own.
That's what I wanted all along, I guess. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

6 " For every second you thought you wouldn't make it.
For every second you didn't want to make it.
You made it.
Thank you for existing (so beautifully). "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

7 " There are so many good things
in this world,
and every one starts and
ends in your eyes. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

8 " My body has always been
a question mark,

never quite knowing what it
means

to be alive. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

9 " I'm sorry I flinch when you say
you care.
Sorry I turn myself bullet
when you try to touch my hand,
sorry I go wolf when
you give me broken teeth. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

10 " Tell me about how no one looks at you like art so you have learnt to treat yourself like a masterpiece. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

11 " Your name
fit into my mouth
better than my own ever has.

Like I was
born to speak it. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

12 " i am too small
for this love,

i am too small
for my
own skin.

somedays i wake
and cannot
find myself
in my
body anymore. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

13 " The children want to destroy this hungry, angry,
growing thing in them, but it's becoming
harder to separate that thing from who
they were Before.

So they live with it / become better at hiding it /
start pretending that the year it all went wrong
never really existed.

It's easier that way, anyway. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

14 " in my dreams i know what
to do with my hands.

i do not lock them up in a
cardboard box. i do not lock
myself up
in a paper house too ready to catch on fire. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

15 " Her staring at you like you hung the stars in the sky when she thinks you’re not looking. Like the moon is made up of every breath that leaves your chest. This "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

16 " Love is the way your body fights to keep you alive. Day "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

17 " Every autumn I
take myself into my arms
and kiss my palms
for making it through another
year. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

18 " as though talking
should be something
that comes to me
as easily as breathing
i went home that day
and cried for hours,
beat my fist against
the mirror until
the glass
ran together
with my tears. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

19 " don't you see how
hard speaking is for me?
how hard
breathing is?

don't you see that
I'm a negative space
cut from the
universe and
when you ask
me to breathe
i am trying to
will myself
into
being? "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)

20 " The messages pile up,
The worry knocks at
my door, louder & louder.
More calls from the therapist.
Pills that should have been
taken lie scattered across the floor.
The moon taps at my window.
Stars spell out their concern.

I pretend I do not see. "

― , Howling at the Moon (Celestial Bodies Poetry)