Shipbreaking Quotes

“I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.”
― Robin Beth Schaer, Shipbreaking

“Current / is the cure for both a stopped heart / and one that beats too much. / And if it must be shocked twice, / the surgeons call it a reluctant heart.”
― Robin Beth Schaer, Shipbreaking

“Only heaven is full of furniture.
We harness ourselves over and over,
wherever hope is a yellow shore.”
― Robin Beth Schaer, Shipbreaking