Claire’s Reviews > Wishing for Birds > Status Update

“(That girl on the news never invited that man to touch her. All I can think about is how I wish she had had something savage coursing through her skin. God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men.)”

“You can’t build a life on another human being. We’re foundations of sand. We’re Atlas buckling under the sky.”

Beautiful and lyrical and terrible— these poems speak to my soul.