Quotes from Major Jackson

poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

ll we want is to succumb to a single kiss that will contain us like a marathon with no finish line, and if so, that we land like newspapers before sunrise, halcyon mornings arrived like blue martinis. I am learning the steps to a foreign song: her mind was torpedo, and her body was storm, a kind of Wow. All we want is a metropolis of Sundays, an empire of hand-holding and park benches? She says, Leave it all up to me.

It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.

It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings.