“I don’t think of myself as an angel, but as a shepherd. I guide people from one place to another.”

“On these cloudless days, / you erect me in the sky / at the mercy of a dance / I so fiercely despise.”

Admittedly I don’t fit quite right in this shoe / But I am me / I am me / Brown-skinned and free

“you scream at birds until your throat is a strip of orange peel perforated at both ends but they don’t scream back. their vocal chords weren’t built for articulating sadness. yours were.”

“In the early morning twilight, just as their long, desperate nights are packing themselves up…Mila awakes, always gagging up bile, always feeling that she is paying some estranged debt.”

“standing there surrounded by strangers and snow and dry afternoon sun, i pretend there’s something in my eyes and wipe them with the back of my hands until everything’s blurry.”