rushes from the river disappointment (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series) Quotes

“there are people capable of eating popcorn at the movie of your agony”
― stephanie roberts, rushes from the river disappointment (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)

“beneath the caged flutter of hope
fear blooms in the liver as a spear
where memory burns its fever
across the spoke of my body”
― stephanie roberts, rushes from the river disappointment (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)

“those of us who've seen miracles know how to ask. if you asked, do you love me, i almost certainly don't love you.”
― stephanie roberts, rushes from the river disappointment (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)

“If I took hold of your lower jaw with my smallest fingers resting near your lobes and my thumbs lightly against the start of your ah would I find where you seem to begin?”
― stephanie roberts, rushes from the river disappointment (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)

“Perchance, one day you wake in a tub
of cold blood come warm. Then, will you let
this whole forest of hurt love you?”
― stephanie roberts, rushes from the river disappointment (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)

“I dare to take my foundling hope as bone and drop it in the turbulent rise of your body.”
― stephanie roberts, rushes from the river disappointment (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)