Richard Siken
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January 01, 1860
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Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again...
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Richard Siken’s poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award... ...more
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"Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. / These, our bodies, possessed by light. / Tell me we'll never get used to it."
— Richard Siken (Crush)
— Richard Siken (Crush)
"You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay and you tell them
you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile."
— Richard Siken
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay and you tell them
you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile."
— Richard Siken
"Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
and dress them in warm clothes again."
— Richard Siken
and dress them in warm clothes again."
— Richard Siken
