... we find ourselves wondering whether this particular wound was mortal or not, or whether (in our blind doctoring) it's a wound at all. It might just as well be a mouth, which is as wet and as warm.
... I’ll call my mother on the phone and buy fresh oranges / from the market. (...) but it’s 11 pm and / my walls are the color of old blackberries / and my body is molding from the inside, mushrooms / blossoming in the soft parts of my skull ...
Love is you and me swelling like sea lions. Or two citrus fruits. Rinds set to pop, navels swaying, juice in the corner. (...) Love is you in a doorway asking me to leave. Love is okay, I'll go soon. Love is you're right I'll go now.
God is just, Grandfather says, but we can't understand his justice. I don't like that, I ponder it, it's sort of like the story of how the mother loves her children because she suffered bringing them into the world. It's not at all rational.
There are boxes of clementines / in the kitchen and the thing is that I love you again. The thing is that / I love what orange tastes like so / I eat too much of it and end up sick.
my life held precariously in the seeing / hands of others, their and my impossibilities. / Is this love, now that the first love / has finally died, where there were no impossibilities?