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The Wishing Bones Quotes
The Wishing Bones
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The Wishing Bones Quotes
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“I can’t pray or weigh my words right; doomsday
is here my friend, but you’re immune. We suffer
for you. I’m weaving crowns of sonnets, dreads;
a souvenir so you’ll never forget your friends.”
― The Wishing Bones
is here my friend, but you’re immune. We suffer
for you. I’m weaving crowns of sonnets, dreads;
a souvenir so you’ll never forget your friends.”
― The Wishing Bones
“We could scan each car for terrorists
and lovers she could lean into
my camouflage her head resting on woven trees.
When they come for her body she could run deep
into my uniform
into the forest of me
where they could never find her.”
― The Wishing Bones
and lovers she could lean into
my camouflage her head resting on woven trees.
When they come for her body she could run deep
into my uniform
into the forest of me
where they could never find her.”
― The Wishing Bones
“First, make sure
the ocean is rolled
by an older woman
whose quick fingers
have been rolling the ocean
for as long as you’ve been alive –
She’ll fatten the rice in hot,
sugared water spiked
with rice vinegar
then make a soft bed of it to wrap
a slip of fish muscle,
squeezing the bamboo rolling mat
until the ocean’s circumference
is compacted in seaweed’s
brittle corsetry.
It takes her just moments
to dress the ocean,
its nudity a pink tongue
poking
from iridescent green nori wrap”
― The Wishing Bones
the ocean is rolled
by an older woman
whose quick fingers
have been rolling the ocean
for as long as you’ve been alive –
She’ll fatten the rice in hot,
sugared water spiked
with rice vinegar
then make a soft bed of it to wrap
a slip of fish muscle,
squeezing the bamboo rolling mat
until the ocean’s circumference
is compacted in seaweed’s
brittle corsetry.
It takes her just moments
to dress the ocean,
its nudity a pink tongue
poking
from iridescent green nori wrap”
― The Wishing Bones
“With each kiss in the cold house
we swallow clouds of breath – exhaled spirit, speech bubbles
we’d rather lick away
than fill with words.
We run naked from room to room, keeping the walls warm.
Our bodies blur through the halls of your house, its winter circulation.”
― The Wishing Bones
We run naked from room to room, keeping the walls warm.
Our bodies blur through the halls of your house, its winter circulation.”
― The Wishing Bones
“We could scan each car for terrorists
and lovers. She could lean into
my camouflage, her head resting on woven trees.
When they come for her body she could run deep
into my uniform,
into the forest of me
where they could never find her.”
― The Wishing Bones
and lovers. She could lean into
my camouflage, her head resting on woven trees.
When they come for her body she could run deep
into my uniform,
into the forest of me
where they could never find her.”
― The Wishing Bones
“If I must die young, bury me
in a music box. I’ll be the pale ballerina with dirt
in her hair. Attach my painless feet to metal springs
and open the lid when you visit.
Watch me rise and pirouette, my arms overhead tickling
the dark night’s belly until I’m dizzy, until the stars
melt and spiral into a halo over my head
and I’ve stirred my death into the sky.”
― The Wishing Bones
in a music box. I’ll be the pale ballerina with dirt
in her hair. Attach my painless feet to metal springs
and open the lid when you visit.
Watch me rise and pirouette, my arms overhead tickling
the dark night’s belly until I’m dizzy, until the stars
melt and spiral into a halo over my head
and I’ve stirred my death into the sky.”
― The Wishing Bones
“Offerings gleam beneath consecrated trees,
boulders, and caves where Kami nature spirits
minister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root,
and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer.”
― The Wishing Bones
boulders, and caves where Kami nature spirits
minister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root,
and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer.”
― The Wishing Bones
