The Sun Is Also a Star

by Nicola Yoon

To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world.

Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass.

But the poetic heart is not to be trusted. It is fickle and will lead you astray.

Let it lead me astray pls

or that he’s harboring dreams of being a poet, a profession that leads to heartbreak and the poorhouse.

Ok rude

Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.

awwe

“Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it’s our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”

Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it’s difficult to imagine that everyone else isn’t feeling it too.

Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse.

The atoms in my body align themselves with the atoms in his.

I never before thought that not caring could be a revolutionary act.