Quotes from Aracelis Girmay

Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars, when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you & touch you with its mouth.

How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered.

we cannot separate the roof from the heart from the trees that were there, standing. & so it is, when I say "night," it is your name I am calling, when I say "field," your thousand, thousand names, your million names.

Oh, body, be held now by whom you love. Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars, when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you & touch you with its mouth.

I am looking back to when I was a girl; now my body's a flash of poison on the floor.

You are who I love, you struggling to see You struggling to love or find a question You better than me You are who I love weeping or touching the faces of the weeping You noticing the butterflies You in brightness and in darkness, throwing your head back as you laugh, kissing your hand You studying stars, you are who I love

this kindness returns me to myself. it reminds me of the kindness of other things i love