Slow Lightning (Volume 106) Quotes

“Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.”
― Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning (Volume 106)

“I throw/my head back,/& stare at the slowest lightning,/the stars.”
― Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning (Volume 106)

“The Blindfold"

I draw the curtains. The room darkens, but
the mirror still reflects a crescent moon.
I pull the crescent out, a rigid curve
that softens into a length of cloth.
I wrap the cloth around my eyes,
and I’m peering through a crack in a wall
revealing a landscape of snow.”
― Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning (Volume 106)