Curses and Wishes Quotes

“I am lost in the living, in the acceptance
of rain filling a bucket,

in the belief
that the chemical burn was a washing

for the exodus
and the smoke rising through the chimneys

into the pale blue morning was a love song.
There are days when I wake

and find my face is a hole
and I have nowhere to hang my mask.

from "The Emptiness”
― Carl Adamshick, Curses and Wishes: Poems

“Oblivion and significance/brush our bones, leave us weeping for strangers.”
― Carl Adamshick, Curses and Wishes: Poems

“There are days when I wake/ and find my face is a hole/ and I have nowhere to hang my mask.”
― Carl Adamshick, Curses and Wishes: Poems