Nature Poem Quotes

“How do statues become more galvanizing than refugees
is not something I wd include in a nature poem.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“What is a fact even?
James rolls his eyes. What do you mean what’s a fact? A fact is a fact. Facts are real. Proven. Objective.
[…]
I say Facts are fallacies, created and curated by authority figures w/agendas and I say, Facts are used to subjugate, intimidate, enslave, and kill entire “races” of ppl reproductive rights etc I say, so yeah I have a complicated relationship with facts and pretty much everything. The only thing objective abt facts is yr blind allegiance to them. James.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“*oh, but you don't look very Indian* is a thing ppl feel comfortable saying to me on dates.

What rhymes with, *fuck off and die?*”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“My thumb isn't terribly green but it's terribly thumbing at me.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“It's hard
feeling like a carcass bc u literally can't *feel*
like a carcass. You feel around instead.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“I / rush outside the billow yanks across the sky and into Queens. It's an archive burning, a record storage building near the water. Singed bits of text rain onto concrete, streets swallowed in fragments like a Sappho / How do statues become more galvanizing than refugees / is not something I wd include in a nature poem.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“Cold was a curiosity, like rain. A ghost. No. A reanimation, a flourish of calendar art and novels with families in living rooms, huddled in a blizzard's fist.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“Gay men are the worst people ever bc if they don’t want to fuck you, you are nothing to them. Yet they love dogs.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

“Hope is a charred skeleton of a house visible from a road that snakes through the valley of memory where fig trees burst from the ground like throaty laughter.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem