Sing, Unburied, Sing

by Jesmyn Ward

getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up. And it could be something simple as sex, or it could be something as complicated as falling in love, or it could be like going to jail with your brother, thinking you going to protect him.”

“It’s like a snake that sheds its skin. The outside look different when the scales change, but the inside always the same.”

Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.