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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
My most highly anticipated poetry book of the year and I'd been putting it off because I knew it would be that good (I'm a dessert after all the vegetables person). Raw, visceral, the theme of addiction hit me personally even though my addiction(s) were different. One of my favorites of the year, if not the favorite.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Some favorite lines:
Blood from the belly tastes sweeter / than blood from anywhere else - Soot
The things I’ve thought I’ve loved / could sink an ocean liner, and likely would / if given the chance - portrait of the alcoholic with home invader and housefly
I am less horrible than I could be - calling a wolf a wolf (inpatient)
You’ve already passed the place where / you were supposed to die - stop me if you’ve heard this one before
Spare this body set fire to another - some boys aren’t born they bubble
I’m becoming more a vessel of memories than a person : it’s a myth / that love lives in the heart : it lives in the throat we push it out / when we speak - heritage
A curve is a straight line broken at all its points so much / of being alive is breaking - milk
The relative softness of marrow - portrait of the alcoholic with doubt and kingfisher
I am more than the worry I make - Prayer
We now know some angels are more terrifying than others - Prayer
if you are fortunate enough to have a body you shouldn't leave it lying wet on the floor where anyone could shred it to bits it is worth treating well - Long Pig
how shall I live now / in the unexpected present - Against Dying
sometimes a mind is ready to leave / the world before its body - Unburnable the Cold is Flooding Our Lives
if a man / stands in silence for long enough / eventually only the silence remains - Portrait of the Alchoholic with Craving
One day I will wake up in someone else's bones - So often the body becomes a distraction
Blood from the belly tastes sweeter / than blood from anywhere else - Soot
The things I’ve thought I’ve loved / could sink an ocean liner, and likely would / if given the chance - portrait of the alcoholic with home invader and housefly
I am less horrible than I could be - calling a wolf a wolf (inpatient)
You’ve already passed the place where / you were supposed to die - stop me if you’ve heard this one before
Spare this body set fire to another - some boys aren’t born they bubble
I’m becoming more a vessel of memories than a person : it’s a myth / that love lives in the heart : it lives in the throat we push it out / when we speak - heritage
A curve is a straight line broken at all its points so much / of being alive is breaking - milk
The relative softness of marrow - portrait of the alcoholic with doubt and kingfisher
I am more than the worry I make - Prayer
We now know some angels are more terrifying than others - Prayer
if you are fortunate enough to have a body you shouldn't leave it lying wet on the floor where anyone could shred it to bits it is worth treating well - Long Pig
how shall I live now / in the unexpected present - Against Dying
sometimes a mind is ready to leave / the world before its body - Unburnable the Cold is Flooding Our Lives
if a man / stands in silence for long enough / eventually only the silence remains - Portrait of the Alchoholic with Craving
One day I will wake up in someone else's bones - So often the body becomes a distraction
Wish I could read this again for the first time. Stunning.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Definitely need to get a physical copy and revisit it in the future.