Bringing the Shovel Down Quotes

“Because the bullet was a dream before it was a bird.”
― Ross Gay, Bringing the Shovel Down

“for a river burns inside my mouth
and it wants both purgation and to eternally sip your thousand drippings”
― Ross Gay, Bringing the Shovel Down

“these little ones crawling
from their holes to
study the patterns of the bones spilled and splayed and
broke as a language”
― Ross Gay, Bringing the Shovel Down

“The earth has a taste so good you could mess your pants for it.”
― Ross Gay, Bringing the Shovel Down