Quotes from Joshua Beckman

That memory is so crushing why write me letters I already know.

We could power a city with this energy, but it'd be a waste.

Once while spying on my neighbors I solved for x.

I hear children screaming I want to awaken them to show them the hog's blood and make them start screaming

Love is bobbing with the unconcerned weave of the current and particularly I feel this way when I am around you. Sometimes, in the night, the earth will change for a man the earth will open up for him and his belonging. When I am out in the world and the air does its little displacement with my body, I think of you moving with the horizon in and out of view. — Joshua Beckman, from "Block Island," Something I Expected to be Different (Verse Press, 2001)

Leave New York or the poem will kill you.