Sharks in the Rivers Quotes

“… dearest, can you
tell, I am trying
to love you less.”
― Ada Limon, Sharks in the Rivers

“World, turn all you want to,
faster even. I've come to like the way the breeze feels
as it rips me limb from limb.

and I'm running the city water now
in a sink safe from harm, and across
the surface of most states there's
a phone ringing and a somebody's lost a
somebody, and a somebody's come
home, and I'm unmoved in the kitchen
pulling wings out of my teeth, praying
for loads more wishes and a body
out there waiting for this somebody
in the kitchen waiting to be done stung.

You mis everyone. Even the people you read about today
you didn't know, their faces on the brain as if on paper.

Maybe you don't even say it for yourself,
maybe you move your mouth like everyone
moves their mouth. Maybe your mouth is the same
mouth as everyone's, all trying to say the same thing.

You come home on the train and you have
bought gifts and tried to be decent.”
― Ada Limon, Sharks in the Rivers

“Don’t think about Laika in orbit. Don’t think about cringe and catastrophe.”
― Ada Limon, Sharks in the Rivers