A review by penofpossibilities
How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil

fast-paced

4.75

"I don't want to beautify our collective trauma.
Your sexual brilliance resided, I sometimes thought,
In your ability to say,
No matter the external circumstances:
I am here."

"How do you live when the link
Between creativity
And survival
Can't easily
Be discerned?
The answer to this question
Brought me here."

"I want to wake up 
In the arms of the person
I love
And drink coffee with them
On a balcony
That opens up to a forest
Where the moss
Glows green
In the pouring rain.
We are both
Poets
Or one of us is."