Jayne

“We didn’t deny the obvious,
but we didn’t entirely accept it either.
I mean, we said hello to it each morning
in the foyer. We patted its little head
as it made a mess in the backyard,
but we never nurtured it. Many nights the obvious showed up
at our bedroom door, in its pajamas,
unable to sleep, in need of a hug,
and we just stared at it like an Armenian,
or even worse— hid beneath the covers
and pretended not to hear its tiny sobs.”
― Jeffrey McDaniel

“The lesson of this life is not for me to touch you again. It is to accept who I am now and not feel shame.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Primavera

“Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.”
― Andrea Gibson

“No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table—would there be any trace of me?”
― Jeffrey McDaniel, The Splinter Factory