The Wingless Quotes

“If Springtime crawls out of the

wild mouths of flowers, then
surely, Winter crawls out of mine.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“I know my breasts, small
as plums, would win no blue ribbons.

But in your hands they tremble and fill
with song like plump, white birds.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.
The wind moves like a wounded animal.
The ground must be full of teeth by now.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“Consider, O Lover, my throat
white as cigarette paper.

The crushed lavender of my knuckles.

My heart, a dulled needle threaded through
too many patterns.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“Winter is already a lost shape, forgotten
in the ground. Instead, here is Spring

with all the grace of a woman
smoothing out her apron.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“There are bones
waiting for names in the graveyards.

Even the sun above us is dying, one
landed repetition of light at a time.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“Consider the road, long and forked
as the Devil’s own tongue.

Consider the Devil, burning
every bridge; Placing

in every tree a black bird.
In every bird a black thought.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“That dandy, the sky, enters blue-suited
sun like a scotch in hand.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“The years nest
like cats.
Not without claws,
not beyond
a little scratching.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“Consider my Lover; the yellow church
of his skin, the clean wells of his ears;

How the notes of a song come to him
like birds descending on a power line;

How in his absence I am of two
throats--each of them cramped.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“Blessed are the wingless, for their bones
are not hollow but heavy with want.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“Consider, O Lord, how You sit atop the sky;
like a man in a glass bottom boat.

Consider sky elsewhere; worn thin as a mattress.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

“If the sun rolled back like an eye,
it would see the mind of God.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless