The Auroras Quotes

“Having your evening coffee over
A field guide of trails or alpine blossoms

& so I need now to ask you
Which of the old journals did you first

Open to a map of my long wandering
When did you first know I'd come back

& how did you find yourself here
& how did you know this single lantern

You are reading by was the last possible
Light to lead me home?”
― David St. John, The Auroras: New Poems – Masterful Poetry of Intimacy, Music, and Sensual Beauty

“When I came to see you
It hurt me how thin you had become

In the months of addiction & disease
& although your particular abyss

Was a man & not a drug
The degradation was the same

The same wasting of the flesh
The same tapped-out well emptied

Of the least leaf of emotion
The same frozen rage”
― David St. John, The Auroras: New Poems – Masterful Poetry of Intimacy, Music, and Sensual Beauty