the magic my body becomes Quotes

“my thighs meet each other like a prayer.”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“maybe this organ will be my country
& everyone i love
is safe here.”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“if an arab girl caves into the forest of her body
is she the tree or the ax or is she the space between?”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“the whole world / comes with you / i no longer / believe / it leaves / when / you do.”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“i come from love that didn't always know the right way.”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“we discuss the / the microscopic; / our cavities as excavation sites / for the trauma that isn't ours / but brought us here”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“i ask her how many years it would take to visit each / grave the past filled to bring me here. she tells me / that each day i am here is a flower left at a different stone.”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“you get to be white as long as you're behaving”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“because some part of you loves everyone you've ever loved even if you don't love them anymore”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“your spine is a river the rest of you will always return to.”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems

“i'm alive, and therefore enough.”
― Jess Rizkallah, the magic my body becomes: Poems