Invisible Tender Quotes

“She isn't here, but around
here, in a deep rain
disappearing.”
― Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender

“And in the sin of wanting
always to be right, the punishment
is knowing it isn't possible.”
― Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender

“Do you know how,

sometimes, when you first wake up,
your pulse is so thorough, so slow,
that you, and the one who is with you,

and the room, and the opening light all seem to swell
and subside and swell inside your heart?”
― Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender

“We cannot carve or forcibly preserve
or cultivate belief. If it will grow, it grows
as we do - mostly after we have fallen”
― Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender

“Easy
to be delighted
or dismayed by POPULAR CULTURE
but then one has no other option and even
'God, it's so dreadful we watch it because it can't help
being funny' is
to be delighted.”
― Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender

“Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.”
― Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender

“One probably hears about it.
One, wire, recognizes.
One holds her bones up next to each other.
One insists, grinding the clutch.
One would powder and powder.
One would ask out of the back of the throat.
One refuses.
One is so sad.

One is helpful all of a sudden.
One turns.
One shimmers; hiccups.
One puts on a tie and keeps finding a place for his hands.
One breathes the old purple.
One nods because no one speaks loud enough anymore.
One doesn't approve, but trusts.
One is so sure.”
― Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender