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A Place Called No Homeland QUOTES

A Place Called No Homeland QUOTES

1 " you are always disappearing in the hope of being seen. you are always shrinking to fit into someone else’s arms. you are collapsing ever inward, a galaxy trying to become smaller. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland

2 " there is a poem
scratched onto the walls of my throat
no one has heard it
but it is there "

― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland

3 " some bodies can't be touched/some poems
cannot be written/just felt "

― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland

4 " there are no words in your mouth
but there's a pen in your head
you want to tell the truth
but you told stories instead "

― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland

5 " sometimes it's important to be alive than to live "

― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland

6 " your silence was exquisite: a many-faceted prison that gleamed like a dead crystal star with your voice trapped inside love me. love me. love me. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland

7 " there is more to us than we can say an invisible thread
a force of gravity, a storyline binding us all together:
my father, his fist, my mother, the scar, me and moon and you, my love

and you. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland

8 " make me precious. make me lovely. make me unlonely. make me a star. like Gollum, like Ginsberg, like gratitude, like grace. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland

9 " i remember you in the scent of smoke. i remember you in the taste of salt. i am afraid of changing my body, afraid to lose you&myself. and yet, you have always been with me. you have always been here. nd i am reminded that though the body of the ocean may change, though the waters may shift, the salt always remains. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , A Place Called No Homeland