Andrea Maria Popelka

“One of the things I think is true, which is a way of thinking about the afterlife of slavery in regard to how we inhabit historical time, is the sense of temporal entanglement, where the past, the present and the future, are not discrete and cut off from one another, but rather that we live the simultaneity of that entanglement. This is almost common sense to Black folk. How does one narrate that?”
― Saidiya Hartman

“The body is written (like a book is written)--or rewritten-- in the process of making love. I mean, if you're "really" making love.”
― Jordy Rosenberg, Confessions of the Fox

“you can't be one of the people in a relationship if you're busily refusing to be a person.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its days.
It is as if I could dip my hand down

into time and scoop up
blue and green lozenges of April heat
a year ago in another country.

I can feel that other day running underneath this one
like an old videotape”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God