Closer Baby Closer Quotes

“Everyone wants somebody
to understand their personality
and their childhood
and what each of those things
has done to the other one”
― Savannah Brown, Closer Baby Closer

“All I want is to be told
that something that hasn't happened yet
was always going to happen
and there was nothing I could do.”
― Savannah Brown, Closer Baby Closer

“I have so much practice now breathing,
which from a distance looks like

I'm finally deciding to ask for what I need,
but at the last moment changing my mind.”
― Savannah Brown, Closer Baby Closer

“He likes my poems because 'it's interesting to see
how differently we experience the same moment'
which was a nice way to say I'm always overreacting.
Meanwhile I hate poems and myself for writing them,
these monologues delivered in riddle by a troll
who guards the bridge to a place no one even wants
to go, like hell, or an open mic, where a further
coalition of trolls guard further bridges.
I try so hard.
Spend hours on the word tongue,a comma.
Look at this experimental maze intended
for an animal both winged
and extinct.”
― Savannah Brown, Closer Baby Closer

“(I used to think
the sexiest thing a woman
could do was answer

to any name Now
I know it's the silence The
never answering

What girlish secrets
could she be hiding
in the absence of sound)”
― Savannah Brown, Closer Baby Closer

“you were so elsewhere
I don't even think you realized
what was happening

how could you ruin us

your jaw lengthened # your features
drifted outwards

I wretched
something black”
― Savannah Brown, Closer Baby Closer

“A little orb made of our liquefied fates

A stargate lodged in the rib

My baby my baby

I will know you well enough
to find you again
in the place where none of this is”
― Savannah Brown, Closer Baby Closer