Poems to Carry in Your Pocket Quotes

“once upon a time i decided love was too much like drowning
made myself an island where if i scream out the ocean swallows
entire cities until i see my suffering is small enough to cradle
before miracles went extinct...”
― Laura Villareal, Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

“… i promised myself never to look into the past
but on perfect summer days i get anxious i want to begin again”
― Laura Villareal, Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

“you look at me like I'm deserving
of real care & devotion, the kind
i've given but never seen up close
until you i didn't know how
to hold a miracle i often think
i need to make my needs small
enough they hide under my giving”
― Laura Villareal, Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

“i envy anyone who accepts love
without practice my mouth opens
most often to let out humid silence
fear of loss worries at the hem
of my heart i hear it hum soft
still”
― Laura Villareal, Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

“we both mistake solitude for safety find comfort in wishing
ourselves untouchable you a cloud & i fog daily i remind myself
every life must be s e e d e d with fingerprints
i say a prayer to an unnameable god the constant motion rotating
constellations across a sky that will always be my favorite blue
the cactus that has & will continue to bloom every spring of my life
& hope it's enough to find you whistling a song only birds sing
in morning's memory waiting for me to be present in our living”
― Laura Villareal, Poems to Carry in Your Pocket