How to Wash a Heart Quotes

“And so I left,
Never to return
Intact.
Or to a home
That was intact.”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“Turning the corner,
Unsurveilled,
I simulate the movements
Of an ape”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“What will you sacrifice
For rain?”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“So long ago
That many people who were alive that day,
Flinching from a sudden rain,
No longer walk upon this earth.”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“Yes, just like everyone else,
I had to deal
With the strong feelings
That moved through my body
Like sheets of rain
Embossed
With navy blue diadems.”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“I remember when I
Was a treasured pet.
With casual greed,
How I licked
The salty cream.”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“How do you live when the link
Between creativity
And survival
Can't easily
Be discerned?”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“I could not bear the facial expressions
Of the people
I was closest to, a source
Of embarrassment.”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“the link
Between creativity
And survival”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“Because living with someone who is in pain
Requires you to move in a different way.”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“Its inky-early outside and I’m wearing my knitted scarf, like
John Betjeman, poet of the British past.”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart