A Place Called No Homeland Quotes

“there is a poem
scratched onto the walls of my throat
no one has heard it
but it is there”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“you are always disappearing in the hope of being seen. you are always shrinking to fit into someone else’s arms. you are collapsing ever inward, a galaxy trying to become smaller.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“some bodies can't be touched/some poems
cannot be written/just felt”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“you are always disappearing in the hope of being seen.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“i am reminded that though the body of the ocean may change, though the waters may shift, the salt always remains.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“we will make love with our teeth or not at all”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“sometimes it's important to be alive than to live”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“your silence was exquisite: a many-faceted prison that gleamed like a dead crystal star with your voice trapped inside love me. love me. love me.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“i remember you in the scent of smoke. i remember you in the taste of salt. i am afraid of changing my body, afraid to lose you&myself. and yet, you have always been with me. you have always been here. nd i am reminded that though the body of the ocean may change, though the waters may shift, the salt always remains.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“make me precious. make me lovely. make me unlonely. make me a star. like Gollum, like Ginsberg, like gratitude, like grace.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“there is more to us than we can say an invisible thread
a force of gravity, a storyline binding us all together:
my father, his fist, my mother, the scar, me and moon and you, my love

and you.”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland

“there are no words in your mouth
but there's a pen in your head
you want to tell the truth
but you told stories instead”
― Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland