Free Verse Quotes

“I'm writing haiku. Not for English class but just because. It turns out swearing off poetry doesn't work the way swearing off lima beans does. I swore off lima beans in third grade and it worked. I swore off poetry less than a week ago and here I am.”
― Sarah Dooley, Free Verse

“The way the strings snap back into place when she lets them go washes me in sadness. Like nothing you do ever really makes a difference.”
― Sarah Dooley, Free Verse

“I feel like my insides are trembling. I cut half-moons into my palms with my nails. Boys like Anthony Tucker don't understand. They don't know about egg salad on porches, about fists full of dirt that taste like blood. They don't know.”
― Sarah Dooley, Free Verse

“I can't look at her anymore. At the eyes I've made sad and the hands I've made shake. Guilt and dread make me weak, and I sink down under the covers, rolling away from her”
― Sarah Dooley, Free Verse

“I open my mouth and nothing comes out, and the sensation is so familiar that it's almost comforting. Then I think of Mikey's mother by the road, green smudge at her throat, talking and talking but not saying anything.”
― Sarah Dooley, Free Verse