Kindred Quotes

“I've left blue letters
on the windowsill
for you
since I was a child.

...
to remind you
that we were once lovers

a lifetime ago.”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“in peony lips
and bee sting nips

in velvety nape
like petal”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“read
that poem
and pen your own
...
sit
with the sun
and the moon
who sit always by you”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“lie in fields of flowers
and hear their petals hum”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“You wade
exhausted to the
shore--
where reminders
lap at your flesh
and promise that

it won't always be like this.”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“We were there
to race the sun,
to sit breathless
above golden clouds
before the dawn”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“I sing you to me
each night still

with chords
silently spoken

to the folds
of your soul

A melody--
magnetised
atom and ion
to pull you
in my direction.

To harmonise.”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred

“contemplate
why honeysuckle always
climbs the tree clockwise

if it is the sun
who chases
the moon
or vice versa”
― Kirli Saunders, Kindred